I learned to bird in half hour increments.
I wouldn’t have wanted to be called a birder until recently. My gateway to loving nature was herpetology - the study of reptiles and amphibians - and my love of finding snakes, turtles, salamanders, and their relatives. Birding came later. The herper view of birders is of effete wimps with shockingly expensive …
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