Indeed, Al.
I agree with your points and would add several more:
The intellectual and perceptual challenges of birding are an satisfying.
Studying field guides before, during and after a good sighting to figure
out what gull or shorebird (or sparrow, warbler, vireo, flycatcher, etc)
you saw by
Good to hear from you again Al. Thanks for sharing this.
I got into birding as photography is my main hobby, and nothing more
challenging is there than a bird. Flowers don't move, and people are much
bigger. On top of that, there are so many birds, and so many are striking that
you never get
Why do we bird?
(Tongue firmly in cheek)
* Play - since we're not eight anymore we can't ride our bikes at top speed
down the road. But, in dignified fashion, we can raise binoculars and comment
on the bird, while secretly just enjoying being
O U T S I D E.
* Collecting - rare art books
As the fall migration is gets underway, I stumbled on this artlice in today's
New York Times about why taxonomy matters. I thought some of the folks on the
list might, too, As Carol Yoon writes,it is by classifying nature that we
come to know it in all its beetleness and daffodility. I
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