I never thought of birding as an aerobic activity. As a matter of fact, getting exercise and birding are diametrically opposed. Ask anyone. When I arrived at Washington College’s Foreman’s Branch Observatory outside of Chestertown the mist nets had been open since an hour before sunrise.
As I was reading one of the many environmental magazines that arrive in my mailbox each month I came across a sentence describing the demographic of a typical birder as a ”50-year-old white woman living in the U.S.” Wait a minute! That perfectly described me! I thought a stereotypical birder was a 70-year-old British guy in a khaki vest! How did this happen?
