Watch where you sit ! (1 Viewer)

Had a very nice but funny moment today while solo bird watching in a nice big area full of thick brush and small pockets of tall grass clearings.

I had spotted a bird grazing not far from me on the floor of a thick area of brush and so I sat down quickly and as quiet as I could...like a tree stump.

To my delight I could see it was a black,orange and white colored Eastern Towhee! Then after a few minutes I noticed another bird landed right beside it...it's equally beautiful female mate!


This was a very "golden moment" for me and I was thinking...this is the reason I love doing this activity so much ! :t:


Then I looked down on the ground all around me and under me and realized that I couldn't have chosen a worst place to sit down! :king:

I was sitting in the middle of a huge patch of Poison Oak..a 3 leaved plant that will give you nasty and itchy red bumps all over your skin! :cat::C

Luckily I ( always my rule while deep woods birding) wore my blue jeans and long hiking boots. Still when I got home I scrubbed my arms with soap...hopefully I didn't get any on my arms.
Some of the funniest moments happen to me while birding sometimes...and I will laugh about that for a long time! :-O

Funny story,cows graze birds don't though lol.

stevo said:

Funny story,cows graze birds don't though lol.

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Thanks ! :t:
Maybe "rummage" would have been a more accurate word? Lol

I think many birders will have similar tales.

Mine was in Veenzuela, gazing up at a bird and suddenly felt biting on my belly. I looked down and both my legs were covered in biting ants, the vanguard of which was the biting I had felt, I was standing on their nest.