Lets start with an Introduction

My name is Steve, and I’m a birder—not a twitcher, but a birder or birdwatcher, and pretty rubbish at it too. However, it’s been a lifelong passion. I’ve had many hobbies that have come and gone, but not birding. This has stuck from a very young age. Back in the day, being a birder was anything but cool; if anyone found out, you were labeled strange, even a weirdo. I was working in the design world at the cutting edge of technology, and everyone was super cool, spending every day in meetings with top designers and design and tech companies. But under the skin, I was that weirdo—the strange, if hip, man with the big lens!

I worked with a lot of designers, and one of them was becoming a very close friend. One day it slipped: “I’m a birdwatcher.” OMG, keep your voice down! The slip was him to me and not the other way around, and he was [one], and a very, very good one and a great photographer. That started a lifelong friendship of birding together, that is until the b****** moved to Arbroath in Scotland and now birds almost full time.