As I sat in the lobby of a hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, I looked down at my gear on the table before me and realized that I was looking at all the equipment needed for a fully functional mobile birding blogger (the laptop, binocular and digital camera are in the bag). I found this realization […]
While patronizing the county's only free-standing Starbuck's (I don't count the one in the Safeway) for the procurement of an afternoon espresso, I noted this sign on the notice board. I can fully understand working for a smaller feral cat population, but just what exactly would constitute a "better feral cat population" (other than a […]
Have you visited Bug Girl’s Blog yet? Despite it dating back to December of 2004, I just discovered it recently and it has quickly become one of my “must read daily” blogs. Her writing is truly superb, her wit deliciously acidic, and her insights into topics ranging from entomology to contemporary society original and refreshing. […]
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 […]