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sophia_sol) wrote2022-06-06 09:11 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2022-06-06 09:11 pm
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BIRDS ARE THE BEST
just realized that....I may not have ever mentioned here that I found a new hobby, which is birding! twitter has been receiving my EXTENSIVE enthusiasm for birds of late because I can just throw quick and immediate thoughts there, and I don't even know if I have long-form thoughts about birds and birding? But it feels wrong to not tell dw about my latest obsession!
I got into birding last august or so. I have for many years looked sidelong at birding, thinking that it looked exactly like the kind of hobby that could swallow me whole, and assuming it would probably one day come for me, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere it did. It clicked. Birds came knocking on my brain and said "hello pay attention to us now." And then I was a birder.
I am still not a very GOOD birder; I've been doing this for over 10 months and my life list is at 54 species, and there are folks out there who can see 54 species in one day if they put their back into it. (I don't have a good visual memory which makes ID challenging, and I struggle to pick birds out of the natural landscape visually, among other things.) But birds bring me SO MUCH JOY?
As I told twitter recently, I am still not over how there are so many kinds of birds in the world and you can just! see them! there are so many species of birds around you even in places you wouldn't expect! if your eyes are open to birds then they are everywhere!!
Birds are Good. Is the moral of this story.
I love birds a lot and I love seeing birds, both the cheerful regulars and the exciting rarities. I saw warblers for the first time on the may long weekend! I saw FIVE different kinds of warblers! and last weekend I saw a PILEATED WOODPECKER and they feel like a bird that cannot exist in reality for me to actually just see. but there it was!! I learned how to recognize the song of a song sparrow this spring and now that I know it I hear it everywhere and it always makes me happy because song sparrows are a delight! red-winged blackbirds are handsome fellows who pose all over the place for you to admire! Yesterday I randomly saw a killdeer in a semi-abandoned parking lot!
idek, birds are just amazing and I love them a lot.
I got into birding last august or so. I have for many years looked sidelong at birding, thinking that it looked exactly like the kind of hobby that could swallow me whole, and assuming it would probably one day come for me, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere it did. It clicked. Birds came knocking on my brain and said "hello pay attention to us now." And then I was a birder.
I am still not a very GOOD birder; I've been doing this for over 10 months and my life list is at 54 species, and there are folks out there who can see 54 species in one day if they put their back into it. (I don't have a good visual memory which makes ID challenging, and I struggle to pick birds out of the natural landscape visually, among other things.) But birds bring me SO MUCH JOY?
As I told twitter recently, I am still not over how there are so many kinds of birds in the world and you can just! see them! there are so many species of birds around you even in places you wouldn't expect! if your eyes are open to birds then they are everywhere!!
Birds are Good. Is the moral of this story.
I love birds a lot and I love seeing birds, both the cheerful regulars and the exciting rarities. I saw warblers for the first time on the may long weekend! I saw FIVE different kinds of warblers! and last weekend I saw a PILEATED WOODPECKER and they feel like a bird that cannot exist in reality for me to actually just see. but there it was!! I learned how to recognize the song of a song sparrow this spring and now that I know it I hear it everywhere and it always makes me happy because song sparrows are a delight! red-winged blackbirds are handsome fellows who pose all over the place for you to admire! Yesterday I randomly saw a killdeer in a semi-abandoned parking lot!
idek, birds are just amazing and I love them a lot.
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