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 dry seat, and hold your binoculars to your eyes. Be still and blend in. After perhaps 20 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 Northern Cardinal fly to her secret nest. Listen on Birdnote.org