On a visit to China from Vancouver, Daniel joined his niece and his father for a morning at a wetland park. His niece was keeping a bird journal and hoped to spot a kingfisher. Her grandfather knew where he usually saw one, although his directions tended to involve a particular tree rather than anything marked on a map.
His niece had brought her Wi-Fi-only tablet, a notebook and a pencil. She liked drawing from photos on the larger screen; it was easier to see where a bird's dark cap ended or how its legs bent.
At the park, they stopped to watch a heron standing beside the reeds. It stayed still long enough for a drawing, then suddenly struck at something in the water. The notebook acquired a large pencil arrow and the words “very fast.”
Over lunch at an outdoor table, Daniel's niece wanted to check which kind of heron they had seen. Daniel turned on his phone's hotspot and helped her connect the tablet. His iTalkBB China SIM let him share his mobile data in mainland China, so she could look up reference pictures on the screen she was used to drawing from.
She compared the bird's markings with her sketch while Daniel used his phone to check the route back. Her grandfather leaned towards the tablet and pointed out the colour of the legs, a detail both of them had missed. She added a note under the drawing.
Once they had finished looking, Daniel switched off the hotspot and put his phone away. His niece had one more question for her grandfather: was the kingfisher's tree on the way out?
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