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Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Becoming A Birder

I have a new hobby! 

Disgusted with Twitter, I Twexited. I flit. I am creating a new and much softer persona on Mastodon. If you’re connecting, I’m here: @maryeffrancis.masto.ai . 

It’s a whole new virtual world. Politer, saner, not driven by the imperative to try to sell me stuff I’m never going to buy, there are no algorithms feeding me like-minded folk, so my horizons are expanding. Quite literally. 

Thanks to Mastodon, I have spent a whole morning bird-watching from a live camera in a suburb of Pretoria, and it’s amazing! 

Here are s few of the birds I’ve bagged:






There may be more. Photos and descriotions @C ourtesy of the Cornell Labs astounding “Merlin” bird ID App … 


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