How to be a lazy birder part 4
This is part 4 in the series of articles for The Lazy Birder.
- Pick up your binoculars.
- Pick up your car keys.
- Drive to the nearest park, beach, river’s edge or lake.
- Park the car, carefully applying the hand brake.
- Watch the birds you can see from the car.
- After a suitable period of birding, drive home carefully.
- Optional extra: stroll for a few minutes though the park, along the beach of river or along the shore of the lake.
- Happy birding.
I dunno … that strolling sounds a bit like hard work.
If I can summon the energy, I might drive down to the coast to see if I can photograph some hooded plovers. I know a spot where they hang around on a stretch of beach right below a car park.
Hooded Plovers are worth quite an effort to see, I’d have thought. For me, it would take an 80 minute drive and then about an hour or two or more of slogging through the beach sand with no guarantee of a sighting… just the thought of it makes me tired.