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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wanderer55" data-source="post: 1753900" data-attributes="member: 83479">I'm still a "noob". How did I just happen to come across birding? I married a birder at age 55. I never looked at birds till then. I had no interest. After my teen years, I was about work and work and more work. Didn't have time for things like birds or anything else. Once in a while I went fishing, or drove in the country, so I could say I saw wildlife. Then I went birding with my wife...... I didn't have a clue as to what I was looking at, not at all. Didn't know diddly about anything in the natural world. She opened up a whole new world to me. It can happen that people can be blind to everything in the natural world. It happens all the time, since most of us never care about anything except "people stuff". One can awaken at any age and for anyone thinking about starting, I say please do go out and keep going out.I study my field guides many evenings, looking and reading over and over. I listen to the many CD's out there and now I tell more species from sound than from sight. Just keep working on it and find one friend who is a birder and learn from him/her.</blockquote>