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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lmans66" data-source="post: 1387100" data-attributes="member: 48976">I too started with Bin's and loved it...12 plus years. Now for the past three years I have been into photography and enjoy that aspect. It allows me to have a record and to better identify species of birds. The real kicker was when I first went to Ecuador a few years back and tried to identify birds by bin's and writing down the description of the book in my fieldnotes. But the tree I was looking at had 20+ birds in it and I was going nuts attempting to keep track of any! Hence the advent of photography in my birding adventures. I rapidly found that a cheap camera did little good and did take away the adventure and fun of birding. So I upped my camera to one that was affordable and did the job. I don't pretend to be a National Geographic Photographer so dont need the real higher end of things but, I do feel I am a birder and that title is with or without Photography.</blockquote>