Birdwatching is undergoing a new, hip transformation. (File photo)VANESSA LAURIE / VANESSA LAURIE/STUFF ESSAY: I have recently become interested in birds. Not in a serious way nor even a particularly focused sort of one. I don't own a pair of binoculars, let alone an actual working thermos, and I'm not at all willing to stand in a swamp at dawn hoping to glimpse a Lesser Spotted Whatever.