• tuto@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    My interest in the different kinds of tits was present already from a very young age

    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Neat birds. They’re pink because of their diet like flamingos, and iirc while they’re kinda monogamous, the ones I’m most familiar with had all kinds of soap opera style drama. They also don’t smell great.

      Source - I worked next to the roseate spoonbill enclosure at Animal Kingdom for a few years.

      The sandhill crane is probably my favorite bird though. There’s something extremely dinosaur like about them.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    When my grandfather passed, I got his bird call clock. I thought it was an innocent item to remember my grandfather, but apparently it’s a time bomb.

  • sxt@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It was all over as soon as I bought a camera. I even live right next to some wetlands. Didn’t stand a chance.

  • ArumiOrnaught@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    When I was a child my parents took me to a zoo and gave me a disposable camera. Most of the pictures were of birds.

    The birds are going to be migrating in my area soon and I’m hopeful I’ll see some cool birds.

  • TDCN@feddit.dk
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    5 months ago

    Damn. I though i was just getting in to a nice new hobby, but apparently I’m just getting old.

  • ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    I feel attacked. I saw some birds cross the street while driving to visit my Dad and I spent like 8 hours looking up birds to try to figure out what they were and I’ve been into it ever since.

  • theodewere@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    identifying them by the sound when you’re walking through the woods or w/e is just as addictive… there’s a couple of falcons around here that have been making a bunch of noise, along with all the crows and cardinals and robins and everybody else…

  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    When you like looking at animals, birds are one of the easiest choice. Birds and insects are the only two categories that you’ll encounter pretty much anywhere.

    As expected birds are more popular.

  • MedicsOfAnarchy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    About a year ago I downloaded an app called Merlin. You can let it listen and it’ll identify all the birds around you by their calls. I’ve found myself rushing outside with my phone if I hear an unusual bird while I’m in my study. Then I look at myself and wonder, who the hell is this?

    • beetus@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      then I look at myself and wonder, who the hell is this?

      Someone with passion for the world they live in! I have the same experience with the Merlin app after a friend suggested I download it last year. It’s so fun seeing real time identification of multiple birds at once

  • BanjoShepard@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I need everyone to catch up. Soon it will be cool that I was a thirteen year old running around the neighborhood with a pair of binoculars. My friends are going to be so jealous that I got such a head start.

  • Fudoshin ️🏳️‍🌈@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    110% it started with some light fun making about birds not being real. Looking at superbowl pics and researching different tits.

    Now I regularly visit Greggs for a baguette then sit and feed my army of starlings in town while tempting other birds to me.

    I plan on visiting the South of my city to see some wood parrots this weekend. 🐦

  • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    A couple bald eagles sent me into a camera hobby, they fucking ruined me those birds. I’m broke as shit and my lens still isn’t long enough.