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Hi all. I love blogs. Gives me the opportunity to freestyle my comments.

I live in Houston, Texas USA and am a recent widower. A return to birding is helping me settle into a lonely lifestyle.

I have retired my wife's and my life list. It was a combined life list. We both had to see the bird to list it as a lifer. Drove our birding friends crazy, it did! But it worked for us. When we got a 1/2 bird - that is, one or the other of us sighted it, the other didn't - we worked together to help the other see it. It made a fun hobby even more fun.

Caveat-there are three 1/2 birds that my wife saw on a visit to our dear birding friends in California USA. I haven't seen them yet. So before I 'formally' close out our life list, I'll try my hand at seeing them.

Just last week, I re-entered the world of birding by beginnng a 'sighting list'. Not a life list. Just listing birds I sight on my own.

Anyway, hope you come back to this blog often. I'll try to post to it monthly or so.

Best regards, by birder B :)
 
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Wow. Been a long time since visiting this site. Actually, forgot beginning this blog until doing a post review. Good being back. Hope another twelve years does not pass before blogging again.

Did the Cornell Labs Great Backyard Bird Count (aka GBBC) February last. First time in ten years for that. Put the hook in me to begin birding again.

Now, every waking morning finds me bins in hand during civil twilight taking in the activity in my back yard. Carolina Wrens provide the wake-up call. No need to set the alarm. Swallows actively pursuing insects always a joy watching. Visual only. Too old and slow to try following them with binocs.

Speaking of binocs, have two primary still in good to fair working order. My go to is, curiously, a set of LEUPOLD 8x23. Back ups are another set of LEUPOLD's. 8x42. Focus knob on it feels like it is slipping. Have a Bushnell scope. Yet to pull in out for sightings.

Looking forward to doing the Cornell Labs 'Big Day', May 14th. Modifying it to a sunrise -to- sunset event. Twenty-four hour stints are past history these days.

Cheers. Arnold. Back-Yard Birder (aka by birder)
 
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