There are three great loves in my life: my family, books, and natural history. Of these, two – books and natural history – make superb topics for innumerable essays that may interest a broad section of the reading public (while I could also write unendingly on the subject of my family, decorum and a reasonable […]
Born Again Bird Watcher Archive
The archive of posts from the original Born Again Bird Watcher blog.
On the Road or in the Field, it’s in the Bag
While attending the Midwest Birding Symposium in Lakeside, Ohio, I had the exceptional good fortune to meet Connie, author of Birds O’ The Morning. During our many conversations over the course of the symposium, she casually commented to me that she really appreciated all the interesting items of field gear I profile on Born Again […]
DSLR Digiscoping Discoveries
As promised in my recent “Digiscoping with a DSLR Camera” entry, I have news to report regarding lens effectiveness for digiscoping using the Canon EOS 40D DSLR camera and Swarovski’s UCA. When we last left off, I had noted that the Canon EF 35mm f/2.0 lens might hold some promise as possibly being a lens […]
Photo Interlude: Montezuma Castle
In honor of the debut of Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan’s The National Parks, America’s Best Idea on PBS, a couple images of one of the many places we still have thanks to such a system of preservation being in place. Montezuma Castle National Monument, near Camp Verde, Arizona; one of the four sites that […]