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While full-speed-ahead birding can mean spotting a large number of species, there’s quiet joy in stand-still birding. Pick a place-forest, field, or marsh. Find a seat that’s dry, and hold your binoculars to your eyes. Be still and blend in. After perhaps twenty minutes, birds accept you as part of the landscape and go back to the business of being birds. You might even see a bird like this female Anna’s Hummingbird fly to her secret nest. 

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