Light has so many beneficial qualities. It has the power to cleanse and purify. Anyone who has ever lived in proximity to cockroaches knows how they scatter as soon as a dark room is illuminated. The very phrase “brought to light” itself has been used for decades, if not centuries, to denote the disclosure of […]
Born Again Bird Watcher Archive
The archive of posts from the original Born Again Bird Watcher blog.
O to be in England!
In just a few hours I should be on an airplane leaving for England in order to attend the largest gathering of bird watchers anywhere in the world – the British Birdwatching Fair. I should be – but I won’t be. It just wasn’t in the cards (VISA or American Express) this year. For those […]
The Magic of the Moment
Have you ever had a magical bird moment? A brief moment in time while watching a bird when the wall separating the avian and the mammalian species seems inexplicably to become thinner and you feel as though you are able more purely to perceive the spirit of the bird itself? No, I haven’t been spending […]
Unfortunately, Still a Sign of the Times
As regular readers well know, for the better part of the past week I attended the American Ornithologists’ Unions’ 2008 Annual Meeting where I was surrounded by some of the finest ornithological minds in North America, perhaps in some cases even in the world. The casual conversations I overheard during the breaks between presentations and […]