So after the marathon UN conference in Rio, I had one last day to enjoy poking around the city on my own. I could have spent it literally following my nose—to all the corner bakeries and sandwich shops for buttery jelly-filled cookies (for breakfast too? Yes!) or yet another exotic fruit juice combo (pineapple-mint-orange? Yum!).
But instead I took a taxi to the Botanical Gardens to get to know birds half a world away from home. Read More…
One of my favorite obsessions in recent springs is watching online nest cams. This week, in between packing and then moving, I consoled myself by stealing a few moments to watch miniature fluffy dinosaurs shuffling and sleeping and eating while … Read More…
I am upstairs getting ready to head out the door for the evening when my cell phone buzzes. “There’s a new bird at the feeder.” My sweetie’s voice from downstairs has that taut, measured tone that tells me he’s excited. … Read More…
Near the end of our birding-by-ear hike this morning, Eric, the ornithologist from Open Space and Mountain Parks, stepped over to a small tree beside the trail and asked, “Does anyone know who this belongs to?” It was a small … Read More…
I’m happy to announce that this week’s post “Deliver me in a black-winged bird: meeting an eagle” appears in the 100th edition of Nature Blog Network’s “I and the Bird” blog carnival. … Read More…
Midnight blue water rested at the horizon under a brightening sky, framing shafts of pine and fir at shore’s edge. It was a July dawn in 1995, and I was visiting Lopez Island, off the coast of Seattle, birdwatching. Bald … Read More…
My friend Meredith and I were near the end of our Saturday birdwalk at the Coyote Hills Regional Park wetlands along the San Francisco Bay shoreline. The November morning was crisp, and we’d enjoyed the usual show of white-crowned sparrows, … Read More…