Until I began traveling in Africa I was never a birder.  I hung bird feeders and watched cardinals and robins come.  My mother always has hummingbird feeders but that was the extent of my birding.  But in Africa you can't help but notice the vast array of amazing feathered creatures.  Now, as I sit at a watering hole hoping to see an elusive leopard, I hear the call of a ground hornbill and get almost as excited as if it were a leopard as I search for the bird through my binoculars.