COULD IT BE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE BEAK?

                                                          

Birds of a feather, but which is which? 

It is sometimes said that dog owners come to resemble their pets.

But what about birders? Do they come to look like the birds they watch?

This was a theory that Ron Bendall of Glamorgan decided to investigate.

He invited an artist-pal, Mr S. Hulings, to take his sketchbook along to the meeting of his local cage bird society - and this was the result.

No prizes for working out which of the society members kept budgerigars and which kept canaries.

So next time you attend a mass-twitch, perhaps take a look around you - how many different species can you detect?