You Know You're a Birder If...

1. You travel to a foreign country and the only words you learned to
speak are names of birds.
2. Your idea of a great vacation is to travel to Brownsville to
spend a day at the dump.
3. You have ten big bird photos on your wall at work and one small
photo of your spouse.
4. Your vacation of a lifetime is spent at a place called Attu.
5. You spend your time on a Caribbean cruise looking for pelagic
birds.
6. You spend your anniversary checking the ice flows in Churchill
for gulls.
7. When shopping for new clothes you check the pockets are big
enough to hold a field guide.
8. After finding a second Boreal Owl you refer to it as a trash
bird.
9. The Rare Bird Hot Line is number one on your speed dial.
10. All the magazine subscriptions you receive have the word 'bird'
on them.
11. Only a fellow birder can decipher the license plate on your car.
12. You know the difference between a pelagic and a passerine.
13. Your New Years resolution is to start a new millennium list.
14. When you talk about the World Series your not talking sports.
15. You own more optics than a college observatory.
16. You know how to pronounce Pyrrhuloxia and Phainopepla.
17. Your idea of an exotic dancer is a Japanese Crane.
18. When someone says there is more to life than birding you
question their sanity.
19. You only win Final Jeopardy when the category is birds.
20. These jokes make you smile.

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Jerry and Sandy Converse
Grand Coulee, WA
mailto:sanjer at televar.com
http://ConverseCorner.com

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the Ark and
Professionals built the Titanic.