Birds are awesome. Loved them even as a kid when it was hopelessly uncool.
There’s a few birds I love. Their calls, how they behave. It’s especially great out at camp and they show up in the morning. Just sit there and enjoy their company.
So, I totally get it. I’d never get to the levels of going out to pursue it, but sometimes I’m in a situation where bird watching is more interesting than people watching—and we all love that.
Seems like a peaceful hobby. [email protected] has a whopping 3.4k subscribers, so it seems to be relatively popular around here too.
Very friendly community, one of my favorites on lemmy.
I’m at the age now where I’m thinking about getting into it.
Yeah it creeps up on you with age… I’ve recently installed an app for it and slowly adding more of the birds I see in there. For now that’s it, I don’t go out of my way for it, but I guess that’s how it starts…
I liked it at 11. Used to annoy teachers doodling eagles and owls on absolutely everything.
Haha. I started feeding birds on my balcony this winter and i love it.
I don’t go out to watch birds (yet), but i love checking what’s up with the birds in the garden, know pretty much all of them, learning their songs etc.
Also now on vacation i am way more tuned into what the birds are doing than i used to be, kinda opened another audible dimension.
I have a low key interest in birds and have been using the Merlin app to ID them by photo, description, or their song. You can set it to record, then just chill in the backyard while it lists the birds it hears.
It’s cool. I’m a massive fan of tits, boobies and shags.
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… Indifferent?
Sounds fun. I like birds
I was into film and digital photography for a while before I met my current girlfriend. Her family has always been into birdwatching. Once I realized the new challenge of photographing birds it was a whole new world of photography for me. It’s definitely part of my identity at this point. Enjoy this great blue heron.
It’s wonderful! I reported a rare bird sighting once and ended up in a book, I had no idea until it was gifted to me and the page just fell open to the mention. It was really exciting!
Birds are cool and I generally like birdwatchers but those people get up entirely too early. It is not natural.
I like birds, and I get up around 14.00-16.00 everyday
Would probably help to get up early I think though
Well I like birds too but I’m not really a birdwatcher. Are you going out and birdwatching at that hour? Not much bird activity in the afternoon from what I’ve seen.
I’m not really a bird watcher in that sense either.
I mostly follow the birbs in my neighbourhood. Made friends with a pair of crows like 13 years ago, so now most corvids in the area basically know me by look.
That and seagulls.
If only I had a car and could get out properly
Cool, I have Birdnet and whenever I hear a bird I launch it, it’s cool! I’m also an old dull man.
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It’s probably a great hobby, with pleasantly little potential to turn into a side hustle.
If someone’s into birds that’s cool. Not really my area of interest but more power to them.
I don’t think about them at all
