"He was always so quiet. I never would have guessed."

The title is what you always hear the neighbor say in interviews after the subject has done whatever crazy thing their craziness drove me to do.

This morning I was making breakfast and I was looking out the window and saw a bird in the trees that caught my eye and I thought, "I wonder what kind of bird that is. Where is my Field Guide to Western Birds book?"

I found it pretty quickly and after thumbing through a few plates my best guess is it was a Mexican Jay (too late for a 4/20 joke) that I had seen. I then thought to myself, "Hey that was kinda neat. I wonder if like bird watching or whatever would be fun. I should check a book out from the library or get a pocket field guide so I can do this more often. I think I even have binoculars somewhere."

That was when I had realized I had taken one step closer to official craziness.

What to all the world's weirdos have in common as a hobby?
Bird watching.