The archive of posts from the original Born Again Bird Watcher blog.
Even if only the eleventh chapter of Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal was the entirety of the book, it would still be well worth the cover price. For it is in this chapter, titled “DDT, the Osprey, and the Old Lyme Offspring,” that Rosenthal recounts in exquisite detail what […]
OK, I think I’ve done it correctly this time. The new website is up for Born Again Bird Watcher LLC. Why the additional domain name? Well, I’ve had the original Born Again Bird Watcher domain name attached to the blog for well over a year now. Since that time many feeds and links have been […]
There’s something about the fresh sea air of the Oregon coast that seems to favor moths. Last year at the Oregon Shorebird Festival, I noted and photographed in the entry way to the lecture hall a very unusual orange and silver specimen that was finally identified as a Matthew’s Ghost Moth, Gazoryctra mathewi. This past […]
As I stood on the deck of our motel room in Lincoln City, Oregon this past week-end looking out at the waves of the vast Pacific Ocean and watching the sun set, I couldn’t help but notice the beginnings of the southward movement of many different bird species. Most noticeable of these, owing to their […]