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
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