Why do we bird? (Tongue firmly in cheek)
* Play - since we're not eight anymore we can't ride our bikes at top speed down the road. But, in dignified fashion, we can raise binoculars and comment on the bird, while secretly just enjoying being O U T S I D E. * Collecting - rare art & books are too expensive, stamps/coins/baseball cards are perceived as juvenile, and Beanie Babies - tag included - never panned out financially. But birds on a list...! * Beauty - we claim that we need Painted Buntings & Scarlet Tanagers for the next county list, but really we want to be ravished yet again by bright primary colors, like back in kindergarten. * Spirituality - some have found peace, some meaning, some transcendence - but migrating warblers, followed by Chinese buffet for lunch, also touches our inner beings. Somewhere. * Camaraderie - there's nothing better than sharing a good birding morning with friends - unless it's beating the pants off the reigning Big Day team - for charity, of course. Submitted ironically, Al Schirmacher Muscotah, KS Sent from my iPhone ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
