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I was gonna do this as a poll, but I guess that option has been disabled while I wasn't looking - or I'm being particularly brain-dead at the moment.
Anyway...
When I look at my life list, and depending on how I feel I guess, I tend to have two opposing views.
Either, I look at mine, then I look and hear about everyone else's and think - mine's pretty poor in comparison.
Or, I consider how much (or more accurately how little!) time I have spent pursuing my hobby, and think - well, actually it's not too bad, and I have got a 2 or 3 corkers in there IMHO.
So, that got me wondering, how much time on average do you spend seriously birding? Don't include casual birding - I expect we all have our eyes and ears peeled every time we step outside - but how much of your normal week is spent in serious pursuit of our common interest? If you are fortunate enough to work "in the trade" either as a photographer or journalist or warden etc., please try to include only "active" birding.
Of course, this is not intended as a competition, but if you want to include extra details, please do. (For example, maybe you can only generally spare an hour a week to go out, but you once went on one fabulous trip and added 100 lifers.)
As a fully-fledged member of BF now, of course, I intend to increase my birding activities, and the quality of birder I go birding with - (faun, faun!) - but for the moment, my average is less than 4 hours per week.
Anyway...
When I look at my life list, and depending on how I feel I guess, I tend to have two opposing views.
Either, I look at mine, then I look and hear about everyone else's and think - mine's pretty poor in comparison.
Or, I consider how much (or more accurately how little!) time I have spent pursuing my hobby, and think - well, actually it's not too bad, and I have got a 2 or 3 corkers in there IMHO.
So, that got me wondering, how much time on average do you spend seriously birding? Don't include casual birding - I expect we all have our eyes and ears peeled every time we step outside - but how much of your normal week is spent in serious pursuit of our common interest? If you are fortunate enough to work "in the trade" either as a photographer or journalist or warden etc., please try to include only "active" birding.
Of course, this is not intended as a competition, but if you want to include extra details, please do. (For example, maybe you can only generally spare an hour a week to go out, but you once went on one fabulous trip and added 100 lifers.)
As a fully-fledged member of BF now, of course, I intend to increase my birding activities, and the quality of birder I go birding with - (faun, faun!) - but for the moment, my average is less than 4 hours per week.
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