If you really want to start with birds without a loooong lens, try the nearest park where the birds are used to have people very close. Feeding the pidgeons once a day will get them really close. Swans and ducks are easy too. Maybe not the most prestigious birds but the pictures can be great never the less.
Out in the wild you would have to sit still for quite a while in a hiding for any bird to get reasonably close.
Henning
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