On Fri, 30 Jun 1995, Michael Price wrote:

> After observing non-birders for the last couple decades, I'm forced to the
> conclusion that they use their eyes mainly to avoid walking into
> brightly-lit walls.

I feel like that's the way I spend most of my time outdoors. I pick up
most of the birds (99% by ear), but every time I learn some new species
of plant, or insect, and then see it several hundred times in the
following week, I think -" how much more I must still be missing?"


>
> Wonderful, though, to hold the door into nature open for them, when they
> learn one of the things that eyes are *for*.


hear hear

Chris Hill
Seattle, WA
cehill at u.washington.edu