Must be annoying to the birds

     "He may be staying some time. He's a bird-watcher, he tells me."
     "Indeed? I never saw that side of him. Our encounters have always taken place a the Demosthenes, where the birds a few and far between. I believe the committee is very strict about admitting them. Do you watch birds, Johnny?"
     "No."
     "Nor I. If I meet one whose looks I like, I give it a nod and a wave of the hand, but I would never dream of prowling about and goggling at our feathered friends in the privacy of their homes. What a curse he must be to them. I can imagine nothing more unpleasant for a chaffinch or a reed-warbler than to get settled down for the evening with a good book and a pipe and then, just as it is saying to itself, 'This is the life,' to look up and see old Saxby peering at it."

(from Cocktail Time, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)