G'day all: You know you're a birder if:
1. You travel to a foreign country and the only words you learn to speak
are bird names.
2. Your idea of a great vacation is to travel to Alice Springs to spend
a
day at the sewage ponds.
3. You have ten large bird pictures on the wall at work and 1 small
photo
of your spouse in the desk drawer.
4. Your vacation of a lifetime is spent at a place called North Keeling
Island.
5. You spend your entire wedding anniversary scoping the tidal flats in
Cairns.
6. You spend every daylight hour on your Caribbean cruise looking for
pelagic birds.
7. When shopping for new clothes you check that the pockets a large
enough
to hold a field guide.
8. After finding a scond Regent Honeyeater you refer to it as a trash
bird.
9. The Rare Bird Hot Line is #1 on your speed dialer.
10. All the magazine subscriptions you receive have the word "bird" on
them.
11. Only a fellow birder can understand your slang and codes.
12. You know the difference between a pelagic and a passerine.
13. Your New Years resolution was to start a new millenium list.
14. When you talk about the World Series you're not talking sports.
15. You own more optical gear than a university astronomy department.
16. You know how to pronounce Diomedea chlororhynchos and you know what
it
means.
17. Your idea of an exotic dancer is a Sarus Crane.
18. When someone says that there is more to life than birding you
question
their sanity.
19. You only win Final Jeopardy when the category is "birds".
20. These jokes make you smile.
The above was shamelessly plagiarized and modified from a BirdChat USA
posting
by: Tom Nelson Corvallis, Oregon
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