From today's NY Times:

Forget Feathers, Blind Birders 'Name That Tune'
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL

Published: April 13, 2004


WESLACO, Tex., April 10 ? Raul Reyes would have been the first to laugh if
someone had told him he would enjoy bird-watching. Birds did not move him.
"I knew several birds, that was it," he said.

Also, he is blind.

But now Mr. Reyes, 58, a mechanic from Edinburg, Tex., who lost his sight
to diabetes and botched laser surgery, spends delicious hours in mosquitoey
subtropical thickets here in the birding mecca of the Rio Grande Valley,
helping lead other blind and visually impaired men and women in
bird-watching, or bird-listening.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/national/13BLIN.html