A Birder’s WORST NIGHTMARE

The horror!! What is a birder’s worst nightmare?? Forgetting the SD Card? Forgetting to charge the camera battery? Low sun on a spring day?? Rain on a spring day? Running out of gas in the middle of nowhere?

Many Rivers to Cross #Grief #Spirit

The road seemed long at times, I played The Blind Boys of Alabama, and the music worked with Spirit, in tandem with the Ancestors, and the DIvine Love of God to send a message to me for survival.

Mississippi! Birds and Updates

This plant inspires me and it grows on the Live Oak in my new yard in Starkville. I find myself staring at it all day. Hoping the rain comes to replenish it over and over. There is a metaphor for life and grief in their somewhere.

#Easter, Earth Week, and Birds

You might even think of faith as symbiosis or sympoiesis: faith is the relationship between the Egyptian plover bird and the crocodile, the wasp and the orchid, microbial civilizations in our guts and the memories we process.

A #Birding Journey Never to be Taken Again

While driving through southeastern Colorado, I realized I would never take the trip again.

Arizona or BUST! #SnowbirdLife

You may be wondering why or how it is that I get to be in Tucson.

What the Gulls Teach Us #BirdsTellUs

In the months of September and October, I embarked on a eastern seaboard fall bird migration trip that took me to the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland as well as Barnstable and Provincetown on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It was important for me to take this trip because it preceded my intense dissertation writing that

Birds of Prayer- #FallMigration on the Eastern Shore

Do you remember jumping out of the car and running toward the entrance as your parent yelled to slow down and stop running?
Well I got that feeling when I visited the Eastern Shore to Bird. Literally.

Those 3 Times I Saw a #GreenHeron

So I prayed that the Green Heron would not fly away and opted to walk further to an area where I could photograph it from a distance. I walked up on a group of Canada Geese…

Was that a Brown Thrasher?

So I entered the area where a brush pile is surrounded by forest. It is here that I often see many #AmericanRobins #RedWingedBlackbirds #CommonGrackles out in about. They are the more conspicuous.