A private, one-on-one conversation
Follow the Birds
Birding That Brightens Your Day
Leave with a clearer understanding of what your birding is already giving you — and how to let that meaning enrich your everyday experience.
When birds hint there’s something more, this conversation helps you make sense of what's being offered.
A guided conversation that helps birding feel richer, more connected, and more worth showing up for.
45 minutes · Zoom · $200 · No preparation needed
Many people have moments with birds that feel quietly significant — a pause on a familiar walk, a flash of attention outside the window, a sense that something meaningful just passed through.
Without a place for those moments to land, they often remain just that: moments — meaningful, but unable to change how birding lives in your day.
This conversation exists so they don’t have to pass through unnoticed.
When birding invites more
There are moments when a bird catches your attention—not because it’s rare or dramatic, but because something in the encounter lands.
A call at first light.
A bird you’ve seen many times, suddenly noticed differently.
You pause—not to identify or record, but because the moment feels alive.
And yet, those moments often pass before they have time to settle. They brighten something briefly, then slip back into the pace of the day.
Birding That Brightens Your Day is a conversation for people who recognize that feeling—and sense it wants more room to unfold.
What this conversation is — and isn’t
This is a reflective, relational conversation guided by birds, season, and place.
The value of this conversation is the time itself — time held deliberately, attentively, and in relationship.
It's a rare kind of presence: a space where your relationship with birds can be spoken aloud, listened to carefully, and allowed to settle into something steadier and more alive.
Most people never have their relationship with birds listened to by another human in this way.
When attention is held this way, it doesn’t just feel meaningful — it begins to shape how birding lives with you.
How we spend our time together
This is a private, one-on-one conversation held on Zoom.
The conversation unfolds naturally—guided by the birds you’re encountering, the places you move through, and the season you’re in, with my role being to listen closely and help translate what’s already present.
This conversation is complete in itself — without needing to lead anywhere else — while still shaping how birding meets you afterward.
What to expect
This experience has a simple shape:
1. Choose a time that fits easily into your day
2. We meet privately for 45 minutes
3. You leave with a steadier, brighter quality of attention — shaped in conversation, through shared attention.
Attention that brings brightness into ordinary birding moments and carries into the rest of your day.
This conversation matters because it changes how birding meets you afterward.
Not by adding more effort or practice — but by giving the moments you’re already having a place to land, so they can quietly influence how you move through your day, your walks, and your attention to the living world.
Limited availability: I am offering a small number of individual, one-on-one conversations (6-8 total), so each person receives my full attention.
Your Host
I’m Kelly Miller, the founder of Follow the Birds.
Birds have long been my way of staying oriented—to place, to season, and to what’s quietly changing around me.
I’m less interested in collecting sightings than in noticing how birds live alongside us every day—how they mark time, movement, and relationship.
This conversation grows out of that way of paying attention — and offers it to you in relationship.
I’ll meet you with care, curiosity, and an unhurried presence, and we’ll let the birds you’re already noticing guide where the conversation goes.
The larger story you’re stepping into
Birds live within much larger stories than the ones we glimpse from our own backyards.
When everyday encounters with birds are held within their larger stories, something shifts.
Birding becomes less about accumulation and more about relationship.
Less about noticing more—and more about noticing with care.
That shift is what allows birding to brighten daily life, rather than remain something separate from it.
FAQ
A few practical questions
Do I need birding experience or deep bird knowledge?
No preparation or expertise is required.
Curiosity and a willingness to pay attention are enough to begin — the conversation helps give that attention shape and direction.
Is this suitable if I’m new to birding?
Yes—this conversation works for beginners and lifelong birders alike.
Is this therapy, coaching, or counseling?
This is not therapy, emotional processing, or goal-oriented coaching.
It’s a guided conversation focused on attention, presence, and relationship with the birds you already encounter.
Do I need to prepare anything beforehand?
No.
There’s nothing to prepare.
Is this connected to other programs or gatherings?
No.
This is a standalone experience.
There’s no expectation to join anything else.
What if I’m quiet, reflective, or unsure what to say?
That’s completely fine.
Silence, uncertainty, and reflection are all welcome parts of the conversation.
If this feels like a fit
You’re welcome to book a private conversation if you’d like a place for this attention to land.
This isn’t about doing more with your birding.
It’s about whether the moments that already move you are allowed to shape you — or whether they continue to pass quietly, without ever finding a place to settle.
