Perpetual Beginners
“Birdwatchers are a fussy, eccentric lot, especially perpetual beginners like myself, who seem condemned never to find a bird, anywhere, that corresponds precisely to its description and illustration in the bird books. A failing, on the part of the bird, difficult to forgive.” ~Edward Abbey, excerpted from Abbey’s Road, ©1979
I have the same problem, and it makes me feel a little better to know I’m not the only one.
If I saw a toucan, I would have no problem at all. “That’s a toucan!” I would say. “I recognize you from my cereal box!”
But so many birds I see are sort of brownish, kind of medium sized, perhaps a few speckles. Those are really hard.
Abbie's Tree House 
…I had no idea that you watched birds… I never get into the details of nature… which means I will not survive the Corona-pocalypse should that comes next..!
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Those are called LBJ’s, “Little Brown Jobs” by some of the best birders I know.
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WHAT??? You don’t recognize it’s the very rare brown-pileated-upside-down-eating-stinky-warbler?… 🤣
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The worst are the freakin’ warblers: the young look different than the old, the girls look different than the boys, and they all change colors with the season. That’s just mean.
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Somebody told them you were coming, brother — that’s GOT to be a setup 🤣
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