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The Curious Pleasures of Amateur Bird Watching

Gavin Paul
6 min readMay 28, 2019

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The sounds. It’s all sounds when you begin. Once you make the decision to start looking for birds, it’s your ears that actually tune in first. Everywhere you go, the air seems to drip with honeyed trills and cascading warbles. It’s overwhelming, once you start to really listen. You’ll feel invigorated, alert and connected to the environments through which you move in a new and exciting way, but this will be…

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Gavin Paul

English Professor. Author of "Conspiracy of One," a small book of short stories, and “The Coward," a collection of essays. amazon.com/author/gavinpaul