Teesmouth Bird Club

i've only been properly birding three times, mostly started it as a bit of father-son bonding but now am slightly addicted so as soon as the exams are over then will try to tour as far and wide as my feet or the bus can manage.
Its good sometimes not to be too familiar with wildlife, as latinising or collating everything in league tables, can turn something emotive into a bit of accountacy lol, although people who do the collating etc i respect , infinite diversity in infinite combinations and all that.

 I'm a postgrad cognitive psych student, who can't draw,sculpt,paint or photograph for toffee, so asides from gawping with unadulterated awe at nature-anything from ants on a mission to gobble up a spilt can of fanta, to foraging black bear grazing at roadsides, tends to be engrossed in a good film (anything from 1919 onwards...) preferably with lots of company or a book, normally horror/sci fi or military history, I love walking (although you wouldn't think that from looking at me lol), feel free to say hello if you see me at saltholme just look for a lion tattoo on the left forearm.
Ps good luck with the wex
Pps dragonflies are my obsession, although am fairly inept at identifying them, they ooze alienness and feed my imagination about other worlds
pete

Hi everyone
Apologies if this has already been done, i appreciate that this is ostensibly a bird watching site, but feel that many of our members may have other commonalities to share and socialise, so was hoping that people could put down their hobbies,past times and interests here, for mutual appreciation, chats etc
pete 

 For me, its one of the raptors, probably the golden eagle, because it oozes majesty and its a relief for once that britain actually has something rather ''meaty'' and substantial, as it seems to my uninformed self that generally the larger fauna and flora live on other shores...