I agree, but only up to a point. Randomly picking a birding site that is not considered a hot-spot might indeed turn out as you describe, just you and the breeze, although at 5 a.m. it is unlikely that there will be much of a breeze. At a designated eBird hot-spot there could be birders and bird photographers already on site. This forum is all but moribund but the enthusiasm and passion of birders (outside the forum) will deliver them to a hot-spot at the crack of dawn. Even if I get up at 4:30 and reach a sight by just after 5 o'clock there will already be parked cars devoid of occupants as I maneuver into position. In fact, once quite recently, one of the parked cars had its engine running and headlights on but had no driver in sight. When I got back several hours later the car was still there and the engine was still running and still no occupant. Maybe I just dreamt that. It has been a very long time since I arrived at a site and found no one there. If I find a full parking lot when I arrive I feel like turning around and going elsewhere. It's funny, but I could canvas the entire residential neighbourhood and not find a single individual interested in birds, or even showing an interest in photography, and yet when I arrive at a sight I sometimes think that the whole world is going birding. To be truly alone I would need to venture way beyond the city and that's not going to happen for a host of reasons too complex to get into.
