For years I have been advocating that people, especially bird watchers, slow down if they truly want to appreciate the subtle wonders of the natural world. Occasionally, this slowing down sometimes requires the achievement of a complete stop. Take the idea of the plumage color and pattern of some common birds. Under day-to-day observation, a […]
Born Again Bird Watcher Archive
The archive of posts from the original Born Again Bird Watcher blog.
A Preponderance of Evening Grosbeaks
This evening, as I do every evening, I pulled the SD card from my Wingscapes BirdCam to see what avian life visited the property today. To my great delight, there was a preponderance (if that is the correct venereal noun) of grosbeaks – Evening Grosbeaks (Coccothraustes vespertinus) to be precise. According to Bill Thompson III […]
How to Speak Truth to Power
At the close of my previous post I encouraged all who wished to do so to write their senators and representatives to urge them to reign in U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff in his circumventing of the environmental laws that will be violated in the process of completing the construction of the Great Wall of […]
The Politics of Fear and the Destruction of Nature
When I first heard the news that the Bush administration and its Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff planned to circumvent a host of environmental laws in order to effect the completion of the “Great Wall of Bush” dividing the U.S. from Mexico, I knew that various crimes against nature would soon be committed. The […]