On our boat are some very committed bird people, however.
This sentimental, unfunny movie concerns the competition between three "birders" who spend the year and thousands of dollars travelling from Maine to the Aleutians to become champion bird spotters.
(If, then, an expert bird spotter or car buff is unlucky enough to acquire prosopagnosia, he will also, we might suspect, lose his ability to identify birds or cars).
Near a brook in south-east England, the bird-spotter JA Baker stumbled on a grim little scene in 1961.
Again, with bar-tailed godwits, black-tailed godwits, golden plovers, knots, curlews and redshanks all swirling around in pale sunlight, novice bird-spotters can be mystified.
Neither do I believe I know any bird person who would call themselves an ornithologist... Bird-spotter or bird-fancier A bird-fancier is either more appropriately applicable to a person who keeps caged birds, or it is a pathetic joke made by some bore in a pub who has just heard that you are interested in birds.
Ho-ho, I'm a bit of a bird-fancier too, eh? eh!" You can be more easily forgiven for calling yourself a bird-spotter, but don't - because it's soppy.
So Eastwood and his team constructed a plan to limit risk — it involved an advanced system of bird-spotters on board, among other precautions — then traveled to Airbus' offices in Seville, Spain, and Toulouse, France, to press their case.
Rather than collecting the individual fleet numbers, less committed spotters may simply shout "Stobart" on seeing one of the lorries, or keep a running total of the number seen on their journey.
In the programme I play clown, kit-man, local celebrity and bird and vicar spotter Neil Baldwin.
To Britain's train spotters, bird-watching "twitchers" and upper-class twits, let us now add the weed geek.
