Birding? Me? Really? Red-shafted northern flickers in flight, finally!
If you had asked me a few years ago about becoming a birder, I would have told you that this hobby was not on my radar and there probably wasn't a chance. Life takes turns though, that you cannot foresee, and you must keep an open mind to exploring new opportunities. Coming from me, this probably seems very strange. Yellowstone National Park in 2018, is probably where it all really started. We (my wife Cindy and I) had what we consider to be what we believe is the best vacation experience anyone can have in a national park, primarily due to Cindy's research and planning of the trip. (She couldn't arrange for the animals to appear on cue of course, but they did anyway.) At that time, I had a Lumix point-and-shoot camera with a telephoto lens (24mm). I took over a thousand photos of the landscapes and animals in the park. The two moments that stood out relative to photography, were when we were in Haden Valley and when we drove by a ravine en route to Tower Falls. We mad...