Halloween is the best holiday. No honoring anything, no family obligations, no guilt trips, no presents to buy, just good old fashioned scaring each other and eating candy. Other than Valentine's Day (which is a baloney holiday cooked up by greeting card companies), Halloween is the only holiday that honors an emotion: fear. It's always seemed incredible to me that we would dedicate a day to scaring the crap out of each other, and that's part of the reason I love it.
I'm not sure what emotion that word "birder" evokes in non-birders. Unfortunately, it's probably "bored" or something. Those people are dumb. Birders experience the full spectrum of emotions: joy, disappointment, envy, lust, hope, anxiety, doubt, and, yes, fear. To prove it, I asked some birding friends to share with me their scariest birding stories. Read them below...IF YOU DARE!
