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Sajehar » Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:09 pm
Crocus, you must get a birdie camera. You know so much about them it's a shame you can't photo them. Your charm of goldfinches (I love that:charm) sounds beautiful. If I can manage to take clear photos (finally) anyone can.
It's extremely therapeutic being a twitcher. Mum had her worst night ever last night; very distressing all round. So while she slept this morning I spent 2 hours twitching in my hide, despite awfulish weather. By the time my camera ran out of charge I was practically in a state of Zen, and I am the least Zen person I know. I was fighting fit and ready for anything.
For me anyway, twitching is better than Prozac. You become so involved in just waiting, and then gawping/photographing birds/waiting again that you completely lose yourself. Twitching has taught me in just two days that I have levels of patience in me that I didn't know existed.
I'm putting the best shots into a laptop slide show for mum, which she loves looking at. If mum can't go to the birds then, this way, the birds can come to her.