It’s a real birding term. It might sound funny, but it is not a reference to how much one wears, it’s about birding without optical enhancement. All the other clues: relative size, sounds, colors and contrasts, and behaviors, matter more. It’s fun to do now and then.
While we’re here at this park outside Edinburg though, that’s the only way we bird, not because that’s the only way we want to see birds, but because this is a clothing-optional park. I’m sure it would be a terrible breach of etiquette to wander about with binoculars.
There are many great places in the Valley to bird, so whenever we need a birding fix, we drive off to somewhere outside the park to do it with binoculars.
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