This birding thing can be all consuming. It is easy to spend an entire evening trying to identify what we see during a given day on hikes or just hanging around camp. We met some pretty serious birders at the talks and guided walks. One couple has over 550 birds on their official life list …..in the US that’s 970ish bird species, the Holy Grail for birders. We are having fun with it though without taking it quite so seriously. I do need to get to the bookstore for my new book though. This 1966 version I have actually has some obsolete names (go figure) and the regions where various species live has changed quite a bit in that time.