As you will have gathered, I love
blindsimming.
I am also most interested in birds
(feathered variety)
Some bird enthusiasts are called
“twitchers”! They charge about the country after rare birds and
tick them off on the approved list of around ?? species in Britain
alone.
Most enthusiasts though, call
themselves bird watchers and many have their own “patch”, a local
area that they know well and go to see the birds and watch their
movements etc. They are particularly interested in migrants that come
to Britain from overseas – summer visitors or winter visitors.
I don't belong to either of these
categories. I think the “twitchers” are bonkers – as my friend
Lucy thinks I am., they often cheat and frighten both the birds and
the people living around where-ever they arrive with their powerful
telescopes.
However, I can't call myself a bird
watcher either. The only birds that I watch are out of
the Kitchen window or else in passing when out socialising locally.
(Me, I mean, not the birds!) I haven't even got binoculars.
Why am I telling you this?
If you go to my website, or read
through my earlier blogs here, you will read about my birding outings
with a very polite and helpful birdwatcher who appreciates my well
developed bird sound recognition skill and believes that I have
developed this to compensate for my total blindness when I'm with
him, usually fortnightly. However in high summer and deep winter, we
only meet up once a month
He is retired from work, otherwise he
obviously wouldn't have the time to spend bird-watching as he does.
Now that the summer visitors (birds) have all arrived. He is off to
Australia for six months to visit relations there and see all the
sights.
Help! What am I going to do for the
next six months for my blindsimming outings?
Find something else to write about?
Jane.
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