If you’re saying birdwatching is a rich person only hobby, I don’t think that’s true at all. You can for sure spend a shit ton on it, but a basic pair of binoculars and the ability to go outside are all you need. I bird watch without binoculars all the time on transit, even. You never know what you’re gonna see if you look up from your phone, a while back I saw a Cooper’s hawk in a busy urban area diving repeatedly after something in some bushes.
I think it’s a little defeatist to downplay the effects from the mental exercise of memorizing and rapidly recalling the behaviors, sounds, appearance, and habitats of hundreds of bird species.
This is great, it’s cool thatvyou have something you like. I mean, I’m not gatekeeping birdwatching, it’s just there are a lot of bullshit researches where researchers can’t properly select subjects, so they are just proving whatever they planned to prove. They even mention that the number of respondents was quite small.
I wasn’t calling you out or anything. Just sharing my situation. I’m newish to the hobby anyways. Bought a camera for plants and mushrooms, but birds are too cool.
I mean, those are people who can walk, can see, can notice details initially, have memory to remember that, have sanity to ride a bike/bus/rangerover to the place of watching, and they don’t have problems feeding themselves. Unfortunately, that collection of properties does not always meet in one person.
At least partially, thatis related to quantity of money and quality of life, which go hand in hand
If you’re saying birdwatching is a rich person only hobby, I don’t think that’s true at all. You can for sure spend a shit ton on it, but a basic pair of binoculars and the ability to go outside are all you need. I bird watch without binoculars all the time on transit, even. You never know what you’re gonna see if you look up from your phone, a while back I saw a Cooper’s hawk in a busy urban area diving repeatedly after something in some bushes.
I think it’s a little defeatist to downplay the effects from the mental exercise of memorizing and rapidly recalling the behaviors, sounds, appearance, and habitats of hundreds of bird species.
Can confirm. Jobless, $600 dollars in camera gear, and a love for birds.
This is great, it’s cool thatvyou have something you like. I mean, I’m not gatekeeping birdwatching, it’s just there are a lot of bullshit researches where researchers can’t properly select subjects, so they are just proving whatever they planned to prove. They even mention that the number of respondents was quite small.
I wasn’t calling you out or anything. Just sharing my situation. I’m newish to the hobby anyways. Bought a camera for plants and mushrooms, but birds are too cool.
Oh yes mushrooms!
I mean, those are people who can walk, can see, can notice details initially, have memory to remember that, have sanity to ride a bike/bus/rangerover to the place of watching, and they don’t have problems feeding themselves. Unfortunately, that collection of properties does not always meet in one person.
At least partially, thatis related to quantity of money and quality of life, which go hand in hand
Found the rich person…