Birdwatching has a bad reputation. Dorky folks, wearing ass pants and pith helmets, white kneesocks and brown clunky shoes, gawking through binoculars, bird guide books in hand.. Fashion aside, birdwatching is cool. Birds outdoors, as opposed to pet animals, are very enjoyable. The tufted titmouse ( an uber cool name) noshing and nibbling at a bird feeder, has a much more calming effect on the psyche than a fist sized, stanking pet frog or an anxious, shrieking dog, my indoor animals.
There are the quiet satisfactions of a crew of various sparrows and doves, and then there's the big whizbang moments, when you see the Baltimore Oriole or the Rose Breasted Grosbeak. They are trippy birds that you can't believe are so wild looking. Don't get me started on the humming bird. Dag, that's elegance.
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