[acomjean]

It’s more healthy not to be so “obsessive” and just do it because it’s a fun way to get outdoors.

Though the obsessive ones get celebrated it seems like a kind of madness, I wonder if they even enjoy it.

I do like photographing birds. So I’ll often bring my camera.

Once and while you’ll see something different like a heron catching fish.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/acomjean/9661826854/in/photost...

But a lot of times it’s just different ducks. https://www.flickr.com/photos/acomjean/50990143647/in/photos...

[mongol]

Cool! Flickr actually has a group "Field Guide: Birds of the World" and it tags photos of birds with their species. Combined with Flickr's API this is a gold mine to retrieve freely licensed photos of birds by species. The majority when I looked were tagged "All rights reserved", but most common species have at least a handful with Creative Commons license.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/birdguide/

[twoWhlsGud]

And there's a season just for that last category:

https://www.birdandmoon.com/comic/four-seasons-of-bird-watch...

[johtso]

But on the other hand, our knowledge and classification of the natural world is built on the shoulders of the "obsessive"s.

Most areas of naturalism require digging deep and obsessing over minutiae to unearth new discoveries.