birds

December 20, 2024 0

Awe and Owls

Short days and deep, dark nights when the owls are quiet. Awake in the wee hours with holiday anxiety, I [...]

July 31, 2023 2

Reads

Rather than muse about the hot summer, I thought I’d post this exciting news about the success of a [...]

April 4, 2023 8

Rest

Am I the only one here who can’t rest when the moon is waxing? Who sits up sipping chai at two a.m. on [...]

January 30, 2023 0

Linger

What we learn on Literary Bird Walks: "The blackbird is involved in what I know." — Wallace Stevens [...]

January 5, 2023 0

Good

Three pieces of good news. And loving what you love. [...]

October 1, 2022 2

Autumn is a special time of year, when a smattering of wood-warblers from east of the Rockies wander to the Pacific coast. And so I and my friend and birding partner David go looking for some of these accidentals. [...]

July 31, 2022 6

Voice

The rare-bird reports reach my phone from Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s citizen-science app, ebird, [...]

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