Sometimes when I’m birdwatching…Things that are…
Sometimes when I’m birdwatching…
Things that are delightful to discover you’ve overlooked while paying attention to distant birds: Fragrant lupines, an adorable horned lizard.
Things that are less delightful to discover you’ve overlooked: An angry rattlesnake.
This could have been bad: by myself, a mile from my car, in a remote desert canyon with no cell signal. But along with being distracted and clueless I was also moving pretty slowly; a few steps, a look through the binoculars, a few more steps… So the snake had a chance to rattle a warning before I actually pushed it to the point of wasting venom on me. We each went our separate ways, and I paid substantially more attention to the path for the rest of my hike.
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Tags: things that aren’t birds.
