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Hello Friends!! :)
I was just wondering since Im still a newbie birder and newly married (only been a year) , how is it that my fellow birders manage to sneak out for long hours of birding without inviting the wrath of the missus!:confused:
Is there a UAE Gardening site along the lines of UAE Birding or sumthing of the sort thats keeping the womenfolk busy that I dont know of? :rolleyes:
Im sure the senior birders have a few tips to share, so would love to hear it!
Ah! wouldve liked to have made the trip to Sila...
Regards
Nimeesh
Eid Mubarak to all!
Hi Nimeesh
The wrath of any birders missus (missus'es / missii?) is unavoidabe I'm afraid ;)
A good way to start any marriage is to bring her along; get up well before sunrise (like the 2:30 am departure to Sila'a), then spend a few hour trying to show her the differences between a female House Sparrow and a female Spanish Sparrow (in 42 degrees heat in the Hamraniyah Fields for instance), then to the beach to show her the intriguing separating features between the Lesser and Greater Sand Plovers in immature plumage.
She will soon be very happy to let you go at it alone.
It might backfire of course :)
My own missus, after 2 weeks looking at various larks in South Africa, decided that our honeymoon should go to the Galapagos Islands to check out those finches, and can often be seen with me twitching Painted Snipes and Intermediate Egrets in the UAE.
So, best of luck to you :D
Hahaha.
Thanks a lot Tommy!
simonpeterlloyd
19-09-2009, 22:36
My girlfriend still thinks i went to Fujairah to see a bird with massive boobies.
Mike Barth
21-09-2009, 21:56
(from UK )
Well after 20 years of travelling Russia/Siberia, China , Kazakstan photographing Soviet Aircraft for weeks on end, my missus is happy that now I just totter around the UAE and come home at night ! :D
I was just wondering since Im still a newbie birder and newly married (only been a year) , how is it that my fellow birders manage to sneak out for long hours of birding without inviting the wrath of the missus!:confused:
This has to be tougher than any ID question... my solution as of July was to get a job in birding. I now have to go birding. "It's for my career, darling." Worth a try! ;)
Steve James
22-09-2009, 21:37
The first thing is to find out what a woman wants. As this changes by the minute, this is a daunting task! Once you have failed in this fruitless enterprise, then take her along with you to a really horrible location. Like a sewage works, orthe old Sharjah Tyre Lake. She will of course be shocked! Then insist that she accompanies you again to one of these locations. She will of course, refuse & make an excuse. You then tell her how disappointed you are that you are going alone. Every time you go birding you remind her of the charms of these locations. You now have the perfect platform to go birding whenever you want, alone!
You see, there is always a solution to everything!
By the way, if this works, please letme know & I will try it!
Thanks for all the replies! Very entertaining indeed!
Glad to hear from the 'wise one', Steve James!:)
ahmed al ali
24-09-2009, 10:09
hahahah .. guys ... restrict this page to men only .. or your secret will be revealed.
Nick's secrets have been revealed in another page (http://www.uaebirding.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1630).:cool:
Huw
Did I mention that my wife got me the Birds of ME book for my birthday?
Only problem now I dont get time to go out Birding!!:(
Neil Tovey
10-05-2010, 14:32
My girlfriend still thinks i went to Fujairah to see a bird with massive boobies.
As long as you didn't tell her you went to see a Shag or a Great Tit......
Neil Tovey
10-05-2010, 14:38
This has to be tougher than any ID question... my solution as of July was to get a job in birding. I now have to go birding. "It's for my career, darling." Worth a try! ;)
Likewise. That's why I started GUIDING around the UAE. I get to bird, the wife gets the money :D
I once went for a Shag with my wife in the Marlborough Sound in New Zealand. It was King. And so rare that even she enjoyed it. Watched by a boatload of people who all got very excited. What fond memories.
Tommy,
You'd better hope Maya doesn't read your last post!
Wot? She got to tick the King Shag too. What am I missing here?
Oh, that dry Viking wit again. You almost had me fooled that you didn't know what you'd typed!
Such filth! Someone call the forum moderator!
Dubai_birder
13-05-2010, 17:49
Just explain - "three dips and your dumped" rule
Andrew Ward
13-05-2010, 19:06
The double entendres above remind me of a recent incident when a female trainee was leaving our office here and returning to London. I asked our Palestinian secretary (who speaks excellent English but would not understand any of said double entendres) to get a leaving card for the office to sign and give her. She returned with a very pretty card with a picture on the front of a pair of English woodland birds (named underneath the picture). At the top of the front page it had the words "Just to say..." and I can only assume that one was supposed to fill in an appropriate message inside as the card was otherwise blank. End result - I had to hand her a card bearing the immortal message "Just to say.....great tits"!
Brilliant! However, I believe that equates to sexual harassment in the UK. Anybody know any good lawyers?;)
Absolutely priceless Andrew!
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