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Birdwatching is cool now - young people tell us why (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 2 hours ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/goodnewseveryone@piefed.social

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Young people are trading tips, logging sightings and turning the pastime into a social event.

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[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 1 points 18 minutes ago

If I wrote this article all the quotes would just be diff people going “birb”

[–] Libb@piefed.social 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

Birdwatching is cool now

Now? It has been cool for as long as I can remember... says I, an older (not in tweed and not so gentle, but kinda amateur of soup I'll admit that) man even when people were looking at me as if I was some kind of weirdo/perv carrying around my binoculars ;)

"On social media in particular, people are redefining what it is to be into birdwatching - sharing knowledge and passion."

Come on, I know it's trendy to reinvent the wheel and to claim everything is better now than it used to be before us, but is "sharing knowledge and passion" really that much of a novelty?

Me being an old fart set aside, it's really cool to see younger people get into that outdoor practice. With any luck, this could also serve as a gateway for a bunch of them to _re_discover activities and passions alike need not always be shared in real time on social media?

edit: typos.