Someone said, "it's very hard to stay up all night playing fiddle and then get up at the break of dawn to go birding." It's a myth that you have to get up at dawn to see birds. We usually go in late afternoon, and we see lots of birds.

My husband and I love bird-watching. We aren't twitchers. We just note in our guide where we saw a bird. We have bird-watched everywhere we've gone, from Arizona to Germany and points between.