“If you love birds as much as I know you do, how can you possibly eat them?” That was the question I was recently asked by a friend for whom I have great respect and whose interest in the answer I trusted to be wholly sincere. Truth be told, this is not the first time […]
Not long ago an asynchronous Twitter-mediated conversation arose between my friends Stephen, Sharon, and myself in which we were debating the relative levels of nerdery inherent in some of the different activities in which we and many of our other friends participate. From developing a professional expertise in the various gull species of the world […]
While sorting some image files on my laptop, I found this one of two Semipalmated Plovers, Charadrius semipalmatus, that I digiscoped during a visit to the barrier islands off Chatham, Massachusetts using the first Swarovski spotting scope (a borrowed one) that I ever carried out into the field. Recalling that, I suddenly realized that I […]
I don’t think I need to tell anyone that times are tough right now. What with unemployment high and consumer confidence low, the general outlook for anyone trying to earn an honest living these days, a group in which I include myself, is somewhere between dim and downright scary. Because of this, I’m publishing this […]