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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ovenbird43" data-source="post: 3158155" data-attributes="member: 64478">My husband is not a birder or even much of a morning person, so often I just go out and do my birding and return home just as he's getting up.  But he does like to be actively involved in this aspect of my life, from asking me what I saw and not settling for a non-specific "non-birder" answer, to occasionally finding places with target birds.  When we toured western Europe together he found a place in Austria for us to visit to see Wallcreeper (successful!), he sat there smiling at me while I ogled and took photos and video of the bird.  So he's generally very supportive but he doesn't like to be left out too much even though it's not his passion- after a couple of solo international birding trips he confided that he was hurt that I would want to leave him behind, though I've tried to explain that he wouldn't enjoy the early mornings and all-birds-all-the-time nature of such trips, just as I would not care to join him on a cross-country scooter trip.</blockquote>