I'm fortunate that I have a wall of glass all along the "wild side" of my home... with nice recliners, so I can sit for hours, if I wish to, and bird & animal watch with a collection of binoculars by my side, to compare and contrast.
View from my wall of glass - the "back yard"
I provide ample fresh water, and a few bird feeders, which keeps a steady stream of wildlife on my property, close at hand.
As I have a continual parade of wildlife (variety of birds including hummingbirds, gilded flickers, cardinals, quail, doves, finches, cactus wrens, curved billed thrashers, juncos, towhees, road runners, phainopepla, hawks, gila woodpeckers, turkey vultures, cow bills ("skels"I call them), as well as bobcats, coyotes, deer, javelina, prairie dogs, Horne toads, desert toads, lizards, snakes, and countless rabbits)... just outside my wall of glass, I've become something of a retired, habitual "bird watcher" for much of the day.
I guess it's become a bit of an addiction for me. Add in a number of pair of nice binoculars to observe this with... and I AM, now, officially addicted, I guess.
I spend much of my wildlife watching, hours a day, by switching bins back and forth, comparing and contrasting a number of different pairs of bins. Funny to realize this, but it is so much fun, and entertaining. I do find that I have to keep the number of bins being compared at one time down to three or so, otherwise my side table gets cluttered and the comparisons get a little complicated. I do so enjoy the extended viewing experience and rotating through different binoculars... seeking out the major and especially the very minor differences between them.
My sense is that a number of other retired people here do much the same thing? Retired people with nice wildlife views from home?
View from my wall of glass - the "back yard"
I provide ample fresh water, and a few bird feeders, which keeps a steady stream of wildlife on my property, close at hand.
As I have a continual parade of wildlife (variety of birds including hummingbirds, gilded flickers, cardinals, quail, doves, finches, cactus wrens, curved billed thrashers, juncos, towhees, road runners, phainopepla, hawks, gila woodpeckers, turkey vultures, cow bills ("skels"I call them), as well as bobcats, coyotes, deer, javelina, prairie dogs, Horne toads, desert toads, lizards, snakes, and countless rabbits)... just outside my wall of glass, I've become something of a retired, habitual "bird watcher" for much of the day.
I guess it's become a bit of an addiction for me. Add in a number of pair of nice binoculars to observe this with... and I AM, now, officially addicted, I guess.
I spend much of my wildlife watching, hours a day, by switching bins back and forth, comparing and contrasting a number of different pairs of bins. Funny to realize this, but it is so much fun, and entertaining. I do find that I have to keep the number of bins being compared at one time down to three or so, otherwise my side table gets cluttered and the comparisons get a little complicated. I do so enjoy the extended viewing experience and rotating through different binoculars... seeking out the major and especially the very minor differences between them.
My sense is that a number of other retired people here do much the same thing? Retired people with nice wildlife views from home?
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