Avithera, my blog pseudonym, is a name I have coined from Latin and Greek roots, though a Google search reveals it happens to be a surname, which may have a completely different origin and meaning for all I know. So I have not come up with a unique name - very hard to do in this day and age.
I derived the
name as follows:
Avi of course
comes from Latin meaning bird and thera
comes from Greek and means hunter. Putting the two together gives avithera
which means bird hunter or bird hunting - with a camera of course.
I feel
birding and bird photography share a lot in common with hunting, as many of the
same skills are required. Hunting is what we did for thousands of generations
as hunter-gatherers. The hunting instinct is still strong in some people hence
we still have hunting which has now become a sport for many and for a rapidly
declining few hunting is still a way of making a subsistence living. We can now
indulge our hunting spirit/instincts without killing anything and instead of
shooting with a gun we can shoot with our cameras - we often refer to photos as
shots. Acknowledgement
I sincerely thank
Gouldiae for his persistent friendly badgering and encouragement for me to give
up sharing my photos and bird notes via email and use a blog instead.
Welcome John, I have just started my Blog after Pete being on my back for the last 6 months, Pearsondale Birder.
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