Try birdwatching in a local park.

“Driven both by a desire to see some trees and perhaps in small part inspired by how much my enthusiastic coworkers knew about wildlife, my roommate and I found ourselves without plans one weekend and decided to try out a free, introductory birdwatching walk. We hopped on a subway, wandered around a park, and left full-blown birdwatcher aficionados. Incredibly excited about this new discovery that you could, in fact, experience nature without needing to venture hours away, I had to learn more.”

“I went out yesterday with a local birder for the first time! I've looked at birds as I've walked down the street, or when they've landed on my sill, but yesterday we actually went to Ojibway park in Windsor with binoculars in hands and a check list and went out is search of birds! [...] After the bird feeders we headed right out onto the trails. We quietly chatted as we went, I don't know what bird etiquette dictates about talking while birding, but our chatter didn't stop us from seeing birds. The first one we spotted was a woodpecker, and we saw two more while we were out, three different species.”

“Hi all! Yesterday I went to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge outside Denver, CO. There's a great wildlife drive where you can see buffalo, but they also have lots of trails where you can see a ton of different birds. This was my first time really focusing on birds and trying to take photos and identify what I saw, which was tough, since I know nothing about birds and it was a bit snowy!”