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Harriety

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56. I am over 65 and am a ameture nature photographer

Sun Apr 17, 2016, 12:14 PM

Apr 2016

My husband and I are not well off. We buy all our clothes at thrift stores, many house projects are put on hold, and we don't have anything in our savings account. I take pictures, some of them are of birds. So that makes me wealthy huh? Gotta laugh at that.

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Clowns, birders creep us out – and a study found out why [View all] Omaha Steve Apr 2016 OP

I think you should all know: I am not creepy! TYVM! In_The_Wind Apr 2016 #1

Of course not, In The Wind. A lot of people like to project. forest444 Apr 2016 #16

Now that's just creepy. zeemike Apr 2016 #38

I agree. potone Apr 2016 #47

I also watch the mating rituals. In_The_Wind Apr 2016 #83

I must say... ReRe Apr 2016 #103

I never found birders creepy yeoman6987 Apr 2016 #76

I don't find either creepy... Kalidurga Apr 2016 #2

Peepy = Creepy AxionExcel Apr 2016 #6

Oh, man. Octafish Apr 2016 #10

I think it's the hats ToxMarz Apr 2016 #15

I think it's those pants! ew ..nt TeeYiYi Apr 2016 #81

Is that Bombay Hook, Del? rogerashton Apr 2016 #104

Well, based on the article ToxMarz Apr 2016 #111

see, hell no, F*** NO Skittles Apr 2016 #101

Hey, I'm LiberalElite Apr 2016 #3

Then you're second mouse! sofa king Apr 2016 #69

I think most people differentiate between people who FEED the birds, and people who MADem Apr 2016 #4

So then Audubon Madam Mossfern Apr 2016 #8

There's often a difference noamnety Apr 2016 #11

Backyard, yes, that's creepy and probably illegal. ShrimpPoboy Apr 2016 #12

Love your name! :) TexasMommaWithAHat Apr 2016 #23

Thanks. I'm a fan of all things Texas as well ShrimpPoboy Apr 2016 #99

Pro tip - how to tell a birder from a creep with binoculars: MH1 Apr 2016 #29

Reality check noamnety Apr 2016 #72

Audubon spent a lot of time KILLING birds. cwydro Apr 2016 #45

And then he drew them! MADem Apr 2016 #57

I know, right? cwydro Apr 2016 #58

DUers do love to fight. MADem Apr 2016 #48

I totally disagree TexasMommaWithAHat Apr 2016 #9

+1 narnian60 Apr 2016 #18

Birdwatchers are also into native plants TexasMommaWithAHat Apr 2016 #26

Like lots of them aren't just like that? Pffft! MADem Apr 2016 #49

What the hell has to happen to make a person hate and denigrate bird watchers? DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2016 #59

Look at you, chasing me around this thread, YOU--who didn't READ THE LINK at the OP!!! MADem Apr 2016 #60

"chasing you around the thread" = "posting in the thread". Dark insinuations of stalking gain you DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2016 #61

You're after me! MADem Apr 2016 #62

I responded to your words, of which I have complete and comprehensive knowledge in this context. DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2016 #63

This thread left little doubt in my mind about that character: ronnie624 Apr 2016 #82

Bitter, angry, and with an irrational hatred of younger people. DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2016 #85

Ooooh, don't YOU have your finger on my number, do you catalogue my posts too? MADem Apr 2016 #89

I have a long memory, and Google is indeed my friend. ronnie624 Apr 2016 #96

I am sure I could do the same with you, too, if I gave a crap about such childish pettiness. MADem Apr 2016 #97

You're coming out of this as someone who aggressively berates anyone who doesn't agree with you. MADem Apr 2016 #87

No, actually several people are wondering what happened to you to make you hate bird watchers. DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2016 #88

That would be you and a couple of people you PM'd? MADem Apr 2016 #90

huh? TexasMommaWithAHat Apr 2016 #64

Here ya go.... MADem Apr 2016 #65

Just wow! TexasMommaWithAHat Apr 2016 #67

But you have to admit MsInformed Apr 2016 #79

arghhh LOL TexasMommaWithAHat Apr 2016 #84

Didn't you read the article? You do know they made a major motion picture about this thing you say MADem Apr 2016 #91

If it weren't for bird watchers 2naSalit Apr 2016 #74

Feeding them can often be bad for them and the environment ShrimpPoboy Apr 2016 #17

Well, why don't you berate the guy WHO STARTED THIS THREAD, then? He feeds them. nt MADem Apr 2016 #92

That's a very, very strange opinion to hold about a demographic that has never caused trouble to DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2016 #33

I wouldn't care for someone creeping around in the woods behind my home with large binoculars. MADem Apr 2016 #42

Your inconsistency is your problem, not mine. You said nothing at all about your back yard. You only DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2016 #43

I don't accept lecturing from YOU either. If you don't want to read the article before commenting, MADem Apr 2016 #50

I grasped exactly what you said, and I asked what your problem with birders was. DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2016 #53

Oh, no you didn't--so you go off and have a BETTER day, now!!! MADem Apr 2016 #55

Its increased usage tracks cleanly with an increase in people's fee fee's getting hurt when people DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2016 #77

You're obviously the one with the "fee fee" problem here. It's your way or the highway. nt MADem Apr 2016 #93

These days they - we - wander around with a camera with GPS csziggy Apr 2016 #41

It surely seems sexist to say so, but the idea of a woman bird watcher probably comes off to many MADem Apr 2016 #46

Most of the birders I've known were women csziggy Apr 2016 #51

I am catching a lot of shade here, for simply speaking my mind MADem Apr 2016 #54

Almost all of his papers and photos went to museums in Minneapolis csziggy Apr 2016 #68

Wow--brush with fame! How cool! MADem Apr 2016 #86

Oh, yes, he was famous in his day and his name lives on csziggy Apr 2016 #98

Does he look like any of your relations nowadays? MADem Apr 2016 #106

Yes, my younger BIL looks very much like Dr. Roberts csziggy Apr 2016 #109

Wow--how neat to have such a distinguished family tree! MADem Apr 2016 #112

Well, Harlan got thrown out of Afghanistan and India csziggy Apr 2016 #113

CAMELS!!!!! HAWMPS!!!!! LOL!!!!! MADem Apr 2016 #114

That's cuckoo! MsInformed Apr 2016 #78

Passing judgment. CompanyFirstSergeant Apr 2016 #5

There are zentrum Apr 2016 #7

Yesterday in my back yard FlaGranny Apr 2016 #21

Yes, that's the male. zentrum Apr 2016 #40

Some sample pool. malthaussen Apr 2016 #13

people think bird watchers are creeps?! wtf? retrowire Apr 2016 #14

People interested in the natural world are the greatest people. tabasco Apr 2016 #19

I'm a birder. Fox News creeps me out. postulater Apr 2016 #20

Bird Watchers are not creepy to me, but there is something about Ted Cruz, unrelated Dustlawyer Apr 2016 #22

Wow. I don't get that at all. lark Apr 2016 #24

This creeps me out beastie boy Apr 2016 #25

That creeps me out too. MsInformed Apr 2016 #80

Blame it on these guys ... eppur_se_muova Apr 2016 #27

Well, I been led to understand that jamesatemple Apr 2016 #28

The British birders are mostly male. cpwm17 Apr 2016 #75

People who are completely uninterested in the natural world, are "creepy" MH1 Apr 2016 #30

I don't really know of anyone who thinks birders are creepy people. Everyone thinks that of clowns. DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2016 #31

The article doesn't give any actual numbers to back up its claims daleo Apr 2016 #32

Not all bird watchers, House of Roberts Apr 2016 #34

Clowns to the left of me, birders to the right pintobean Apr 2016 #35

I understand the clowns (blech) etherealtruth Apr 2016 #36

But they don't find snipers creepy? rock Apr 2016 #37

LOL Scurrilous Apr 2016 #95

Keeps undesirables away if they find me creepy. The birds and I are OK w/ that. Solly Mack Apr 2016 #39

Wildlife occupiers should think birders are scary! csziggy Apr 2016 #44

I'd be more creeped out by sulphurdunn Apr 2016 #52

I am over 65 and am a ameture nature photographer Harriety Apr 2016 #56

You can always post a few photos Omaha Steve Apr 2016 #66

Ah, but you are wealthy, in the only ways that really matter Pakhet Apr 2016 #100

Never been creeped by either. ananda Apr 2016 #70

What a weird article. cwydro Apr 2016 #71

Thanks for an entertaining and interesting thread! Rex Apr 2016 #73

Political nerds are way more creepy. nt U4ikLefty Apr 2016 #94

as a friend of mine always says, "yeah....but nobody likes a mime!' islandmkl Apr 2016 #102

I'm glad that you madokie Apr 2016 #105

I actually read the linked article. rogerashton Apr 2016 #107

Realistically, bird watchers who "creep" create better photos... Jeffersons Ghost Apr 2016 #108

I'm a birder, but I'm not well-off. Ilsa Apr 2016 #110