Spring is a beautiful season, when all that was resting returns, including those fucking birds perched outside your window singing love songs at six in the morning every single day. It's easy to hate on birds, not so easy to appreciate them, and harder still to find them funny. But the birder (that's what birdwatchers prefer to be called) behind the Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America manages to express both deep disdain and admiration for our feathered friends, while churning up no shortage of humor along the way.
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"I hate birds," the blogger writes on his or her Tumblr. "These are my field notes."
These notes are the result of a homework assignment-cum-35-year quest to spot a single bird. He notes on the blog that, back in the fourth grade, he was given a school assignment to find the allusive Golden Crowned Kinglet. Many hours later, the poor kid conceded defeat. But on New Year's Day, the now middle-aged birder ran into a Golden Crowned Kinglet on a walk."I carefully pulled my phone from my pocket to snap a picture of it—a trophy for an event nearly forty years ago. Proof of achievement," he writes. Unfortunately, the kinglet wasn't having it and wouldn't sit still. It flew off before our birder could take a decent photo. "'You little son of a bitch,' I thought, and I decided to make this blog."Read full story on Creators.