Well, obviously birding can't last for ever ... I mean, in a few billions of years, the sun is going to fry us all to fritters.... so there's the death of birding. Probably But there are more immediate threats ... when Universal Credit, robots depriving huge swathes of the workforce of their jobs, the rise and rise of cohorts of gormless, witless, uneducated 1st-class degree-holders taking over the country and making even worse the dire state of management, not to mention the Ebola virus which will inevitably be ferried on our airlines to every country in the world, and, of course, Amazon, and all those Antisocial Media sites.... Witter, Acebook, , Bumbler, Napchat, Instagran (for the over-twelves) ..all of that and more ...reduces the world to utter chaos, birding will get a bit marginalised. Or worse. But there is a much more imminent danger to birding .... any day now, some dickhead will put a new sort of binoculars on the market ...it will have, tucked away inside its gubbins, bird-recognition software which will ID any bird within seconds and name it onscreen. And a range of telescopes that do the same. ¡ Ouch ! Oh, we'll all say we're not getting one of them, but you know what ... soon there just won't be the old sort. But "we", we happy band of real birders, will hold on to our old bins and scope and keep on using them. Maybe we'll have to do it surreptitiously as they will become valuable collectors items and be worth several Banksies ... that's the new currency that coming in soon. It's a sort of Craptocurrency that will sweep the world. But we can't hold out for ever. It will be The Death Of Birding. But on the plus side, we can revert to type...wandering round the, er. countryside ( the what ?) enjoying ( what?) watching and hearing the birds. ( ?) ( the what ?) How very odd. But it might catch on. And as for music, this'll do ... Jethro Tull, " Living in the Past", 1969 !! Happy and I'm smilin', walk a mile to drink your water
You know I'd love to love you and above you there's no other We'll go walking out while others shout of war's disaster Oh, we won't give in, let's go living in the past Once I used to join in, every boy and girl was my friend Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting Let us close our eyes, outside their lives go on much faster Oh, we won't give in, we'll keep living in the past Oh, we won't give in, let's go living in the past Oh no, no, we won't give in, let's go living in the past
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