Why didn’t anyone tell me that birding is like Pokémon for people that enjoy woods?

The internet adage that bird watching sneaks up on you out of nowhere as you get older.

Pine Grosbeak also called moosebirds since they aren’t bothered by humans.

I did! :D https://x.com/ljxie/status/1640193417417482241

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You basically have built in rarity that could determine points 

Ie a robin or sparrow worth less than a blue jay which is worth less than a red tailed hawk 

And I fckin LOVE peoples bird pics!!! So that has to be included 

Been noodling think it would be such a fun project

I have been wondering if I could make a social game for all of us that feel that way :) 

Wouldn’t that be fun

And now every time you travel you can get excited too about seeing the local species

I used to make fun of my grandparents for carrying around binoculars on vacation to see birds and now I carry around a little telescope to hunt for them in Japan because my iPhone camera isn’t that great for such tiny creatures. I am them now.

And then if you add the water biome and the jungle biome you basically just have to complete the real Pokédex

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Animal Crossing style museum of all the cool shit you've seen IRL 🤯🤯

Also I almost feel like you’re trolling us with the yellow rumped warbler on the top of your life list. Like this meme, yes?

https://www.reddit.com/r/suspiciouslyspecific/comments/xi1unn/oh_cool/ 

@linda for the flag

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@dwr.eth I've been trying to tell everyone I know this for years...

.... this analogy is really dangerous for me. I feel like maybe we're all just on slippery slopes that lead towards birding and we're just all at different points along the slope. It's inevitable that I bird watch.

I wanted to be an ornithologist when I was younger for this reason

probably the only birding ENS site right now https://yihanphotos.eth.limo/ by @yi

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Wait until you spot a rare one! It gets a little red dot next to it.

There has to be a cool Pokédex app for this where you have to prove it via photos

these are mine
... and then you discover a plant identifier app - https://apps.apple.com/en/app/picturethis-plant-identifier/id1252497129?l=en-GB

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Birding is a lot of fun. Have you read Jonathan Franzen's My Bird Problem essay?

I would have started bird watching sooner