Burningbird3 Quarks Daily points to a wonderful NY Times magazine article on birding, stories, and the now legendary ivory-billed woodpecker. But this is not one of those crummy stories that ends with some annoying riff about “ambiguity.” Birding is not philosophy. Birding is storytelling, and ivory-bill birding is the most exquisitely nuanced yarn of them all. It requires […]
Thanks to Scott Reynen for the link to a second squid focused weblog–this one by Laughing Squid. The site has two items that especially caught my eye (figuratively) this week: War of the Worlds with a real squid. Filming the Red Devil — a National Geographic film clip showing large Humboldt squid attacking the man who is attempting to film them. […]
There were three deer on the path in front of me. They didn’t run when they saw me. They just stood there staring at me. Finally, as one, they moved: one pawed the ground, one began eating the leaves from a small bush, the third started walking towards me. Deer are supposed to run from […]
It’s been in the 80’s almost 90 this week. It seems like every day we’re breaking temperature records. Last night I had to open all of my windows, which means that I woken at the crack of dawn by all the birds. I didn’t mind over much. Now, I’m sitting at my desk in front […]
The cloudy weather broke for a few hours yesterday morning, but it was still cold. I took my telephoto to the park to take photos of birds. Not flowers, or derelict buildings, cute children, or dogs in costume — birds. There’s a pileated woodpecker that frequents one of the parks. I’ve heard him and others […]