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A pair of Red Tail Hawks soaring overhead while I set up my tiny tent between two large bales of rolled hay. I took out my compact Bushnell birding binoculars from my pocket to confirm their identification. The next morning I observed 4 deer, all does, feeding about 50 feet away and my hawks were not yet stirring in the sky.[end snippet”>

It was a long journey with a lot of people in the van. I listened and I watched the birds in the fields as we whizzed by on the freeway. I learned a new way to communicate about birding. I found a new a way to connect urbanites with the open fields of the countryside. And we did all of that without using our birding binoculars That is part of why I am a birder.