Do your best to maximize your time sewage-side. One suggestion I can offer: rat watching. (“Hey! Did I just see a Norway?”)
Before we move on: however empty the skies, what you will see plenty of, out there in the wilds, is birdwatchers. There they are, pointing up into the empty trees!
And birders, unlike their quarry, are easy to identify. They will look just the way you expected.
You’ll see, too, that you needn’t spend a fortune dressing for birding. In general, anything that makes you look like a gym teacher will do.
As for rainwear, birdwatchers have discovered that plain green garbage bags make handsome and affordable raingear, which can be counted on to let rain in only through the openings cut out for the head and arms.
Most of the time, the birds are too far away to see.
Nothing dampens the pleasures of that first outing more than the notion that the birds will be visible to the naked eye.
Do you remember our birders, pointing into the empty trees? Well, these birders might indeed have seen a bird. But know in advance that the bird might easily be in the next township.
“Now hold on a minute,” you may say. “Surely with a good pair of binoculars you’ll see the birds just fine.”
But there’s a funny thing about binoculars. The more powerful they are, the smaller their field of vision.
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