Making a l'il Advent thread for '24.
24 quotes by 24 different authors from the pages of #LowCarbonBirding.
With 24 wintry pics of mine taken around the southern #Medway estuary.
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24 quotes by 24 different authors from the pages of #LowCarbonBirding.
With 24 wintry pics of mine taken around the southern #Medway estuary.
1/25..
Comments
"Against the apparent allure of a hectic quest for a long list of species spotted in many places, there is a beautiful simplicity in visiting the same place week in, week out, getting to know the individual creatures that live there and watching the environment change through the seasons"
"..watching a patch can add fine-scale data for poorly known areas. Observations from a seemingly unremarkable inland patch may actually provide more insights than a well-watched section of the coast: inspiration for the many UK birders who live some distance from the coast.."
"For me, one of the most satisfying aspects of observing the behaviour of local birds is experiencing the changes through the seasons: a murmuration of starlings over a frosty reedbed on a winter's evening; a flock of Sand Martins feeding low over the water in early spring; the.."
"..I do not feel I have experienced some kind of epiphany, but rather a slow realisation that the birding ethos I embraced in my younger years - which still pervades the modern scene - belongs in the past and should therefore end with my generation or sooner.."
"..perhaps the most direct impact of #LowCarbonBirding has been the evaporation of the stress and anxiety that has accompanied most of my birding career.. birding in the UK.. is.. a deficit model of birding, premised upon obsessing about what we have not yet seen.."
"Where car journeys are unavoidable, drivers can help by adopting techniques known as eco-driving, including accelerating gently, driving with the correct tyre pressure and avoiding abrupt and aggressive manoeuvres. These all reduce the quantities of plastic shed by tyres."