Knows his animals, and more importantly, his birds like his nieces and nephews. What he doesn't know, he finds out. The bit about the birds is the important thing. You see, he converted me to birddom. Call me a birdie, weirdie, boring twitcher.
Birds are it.
Here the alone bit on safari comes in again. I spend a lot of time travelling - always alone. And for the first time, I blessed my state. Travelling through Botswana, turning into a birdie was a kind of catharsis for me. I could go where I wanted, search for what I wanted to see, spend as much time as suited me looking at it.