Today I discovered the above complete misrepresentation of a conversation that I recently had online....and figured that those who may have missed the context behind it, might be interested in the ACTUAL truth, so here it is....
I recently discovered there was a local birder (who I've never met, or heard of prior to early January) doing a UK Big Year - attempting to see 400 species in the UK in 2025. However, rather than pay for this out of his own pocket as any normal birder would do, he was attempting to crowdfund it online. His initial blog-post was written in a very 'entitled' manner - bemoaning the fact that a couple of organisations had already backed out of paying for his year-long birding holiday (they dodged a bullet...as you'll see!), and if I had been considering contributing it would definitely have put me off. He had however managed to get Hawke Optics to gift him some new equipment - which he has since thrown another very juvenile hissy fit about on his latest blog-post....(see lower half of above photo).
However on January 11th, I had a rather 'interesting' exchange with him via the 'new' social media site BlueSky (which is the subject of his work of fiction above) in the comments section of a
where he had a go at the woman who runs the site (see 1st screenshot below...).....
Now, this wasn't the last interaction between us (despite his claims above in his own latest blog-post), as a week or so later I posted a photo of a Water Rail on BlueSky from which I withheld the location to avoid too much disturbance. However, I got the rather abruptly worded query below on the photo....
To which I replied....
Which prompted this reply....
....and finally....
So as you can see here both sides of the complete interaction, you will note it bears little actual resemblance to what he has claimed on his blog (even ignoring the 'newbie birder who shoots grouse' part). I'm not going to link to his blog - though if you'd like to see further evidence of just what sort of a person he is, you might like to visit his BlueSky page and click on 'replies'.....(but don't say I didn't warn you). EDIT : It appears he has hidden his BlueSky page from all (thought it still exists) and the posts too.