Sunday, June 1, 2014

Dirt Cheap Hobbies - Birdwatching (or Birding)

Even if you are flat broke, it's important to have hobbies, interests, and passions.  It's important to maintain them to relieve stress.  Unfortunately, many hobbies require expensive equipment.  However, one hobby is practically free - Birdwatching.  Some serious hobbyists call it birding.  No matter what you call it watching birds is cheap.  To learn more, here is the run down on what you need to get started on the cheap:

Dirt Cheap Hobbies - Birding

You can spend hours looking at birds, taking notes on their behavior, and checking them off of your list of birds that are native to your area.  If you have a camera with a zoom you can take pictures of them.  If you have a few crumbs or just a few dollars for birdseed, you can feed them.  You can improve your environment buy setting up a birdbath or making sure that plants grow to sustain your local bird population.  But, best of all, these things cost little or no money.

Here is a basic pair of binoculars to get started:


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