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Message: <blockquote data-quote="longbow" data-source="post: 1756511" data-attributes="member: 77303">As to how a person can be a "noob." I am sixty years old and have been a passionate nature lover all my life. Naturally I was aware of and interested in birds, but tended to dismiss the "lbj's" etc. concentrating on eagles and hawks and the waterfowl and upland birds I hunted. As I have grown older I have both become ambivalent about hunting and physically less able to engage in it as well as in archery, canoeing, backpacking, shooting and all the rest. In the last couple of years I have become much more interested in avian life in general, their incomparable beauty, toughness, behavior, et.al. They have beguiled me and I now really care about each and every one, whether it be a drab little sparrow or some knock-your-eyes-out celebrated rarity from the wilds of Borneo.I take books out of the library, ignore my rods and guns, just bought a pair of Zeiss bins and hang out here. It is in this sense that I am a "noob." As an ornithologist I am a beginner and am amazed at all that I have to learn. I don't know when I'll stop being a noob, but it'll be a long while yet.</blockquote>