If I were to pick up another hobby, birding would be high on my list. I don’t currently have the desire to invest time and effort into another hobby, so for now I enjoy identifying very easy birds like pelicans, and birds that I can remember the name of only because it is yellow-headed blackbird. The reason I am so tempted to take up birding, is we live ten minutes away from an excellent bird refuge. We went out with the kids and drove around the auto-loop and enjoyed massive amounts of awesome birds.
(Now I should insert all the wonderful pictures I took. But my camera is on its last legs and sorely needs to be replaces. All my pictures were blurry.)
Liz Braithwaite 
I know a few birds–kill deer, American robin, red wing blackbird, starling, California gull, California quail, house finch, American coot, American white pelican, blue heron, red tailed hawk, bald eagle, golden eagle, raven, crow, magpie, townsend’s solitaires, etc. I get them wrong a lot. Dillon knows like two hundred birds, but he took ornithology and avian ecology. I’ve learned all my birds from him.
Also, I think it’s easier to identify birds sometimes by their sounds than with how they look.
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