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Relatable. Birds are suddenly really interesting in your 30s.

That's because at some point in your life you realise that birds are just tiny dinosaurs.

I recently download an app that uses AI to identify bird calls.

Merlin Bird ID

I love how birds are named. Look Debbie, it's a Coloredpart Sounditmakes.

So Lemmy believes in birds?

Birds aren't real.

You can rest assured that they've been watching you for your entire life.

No shit. This happened to me this year. A bird crossed my path while I was running and I had to double take because it was so cool looking. Now I look forward because I see him pretty often now. Ever since I check birds out all the time now

My wife got me birds of Europe last year because I once mentioned it's a neat book (my parents have it). Next thing I know I buy some binoculars for birdwatching and started tracking the birds that visit my garden. It's not a spectacular list but I am proud of it because I used the book to identify the birds and got it confirmed with birdnet. The list: house sparrow, blackbird, goldfinch, swift, common house martin, common linnet, greenfinch and blue tits. Edit: and wood doves

My cousin at 31 years old said this weekend, "I know I'm getting old because I was sitting on a swing at a friends and thought to myself 'This would be a great spot to watch birds from'."

Very relatable. I started leaving food for some local magpies about a year ago, and now they wake me up every morning at 6.

I once had a problem when suddenly some tits arrived and started stealing all the food. A huge magpie would take like one hazelnut and be on its way, while these small fuckers would eat like pigs, and then hide what was left. They'd take the nuts and shove them somewhere between the flowers on my balcony. Tough the magpies too have often burried nuts in the soil below the flowers, only to dig them out again.

And it was so cool to watch some sparrow coming and going a dozen times to pull out some weeds that have been growing (I left the pots with the flowers outside over winter, the flowers died and weeds started to grow), and then carry them to a hole in a wall where a brick is missing which presumably is the nest.

But it was so so cool when I got woken up a few days in succession to a silhouette of a majestic crow standing on my balcony (my bed looks directly through the balcony window facing north-east). Crows are so cool, and magpies are really beatutiful, though extremely skittish.

My grandma got me into birding when I was a young child. My friends always text me pictures of birds like it's a quiz. Maybe this means they'll start to catch up.

Sorry Jesse Case, I think I must have been born old. I've always noticed birds, if I see or hear a species I can't recognise, especially if near where I live, I must id it to restore my inner peace. I'm yet to see this change as I age

“Look Raymond, a yellow crested warbler”

Sometimes when you look at pigeons they look back

Plane watching is basically birdwatching for nerds.

Acquiring birds.

This is me.

I love watching the crested pigeons and turtle doves, and trying to understand their culture.

We're still in the age of dinosaurs.

I got into birding this spring as a hobby, thinking to myself "it's free, you just need to use your eyes and ears", withing a month I bought a $350 pair of binoculars. I've managed to fight off the temptation of a decent camera so far, thankfully. I found a great park at the tail end of spring migration about 10 minutes from my apartment, and the dawn chorus was almost sensory overload, the was so many different species singing and calling. I'm looking forward to what new birds I'll see during this fall migration and especially next spring migration.

Birds are super cute, but younger people are often too focused on themselves to even see how cool they are. :)

Except of course if they can get Instagram likes for the pictures of birds, then it's interesting... :p

Yes I'm stereotyping here.... I'm aware.

Shit, it hurts bad, since COVID I took "birdnet" and check all birds, it's so cool!

I dunno why, but I've always been fascinated by the twitchy, blank-eyed movements they make. Also, there are some fantastic high def videos of birds that my kiddo's cat loves to watch with me.

Yes

My 63yo mom likes to memorize birds names in the same way 90s kids did with pokemons. I think she does it since she was a child. When we're taking a walk together she points to the birds and say their names. And I learn to much with her, I love when she does it!

I hated birds, especially "laser birds" (house wrens), but yeah they're interesting now. I also live in a great place to bird watch

You see ONE cool bird and you jump off the edge.

This made me laugh. I'm in my early 40s and in the past six months I've been using the Merlin app to identify birds by their song. It's really fun to see what's going on around me in terms of birds. I had no interest before.