Category Archives: Birding
Humans Boom while Birds Crash
The United Nations estimates that our population reached 8 billion this week. In 1900, it was 1.6 billion but by the turn of the 21st century, we had grown to over 6 billion. That is nearly 2 billion more mouths … Continue reading
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Tagged extinction, Murmuration, Starling, world population
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Bring Your Cat Indoors
We heard a different owl calling in the woods behind our home today at twilight, not the familiar sound of Barred Owls. It hooted softly, as a tiger might purr to itself, watching a herd of antelopes. It was the … Continue reading
Scavengers in my Yard
Deer munch on our flower borders, strip foliage to head height, and rub bark off trees with their antlers in the rutting season. We grumble yet feel sad coming across a beautiful animal that died on our property after a … Continue reading
Last Flight of the Marlins
Memories of the Canadian wilderness forty years earlier were still sharp in Dr. Robert Morris’s mind as an old man in the 1930s. A pioneering New York surgeon, he was also a distinguished naturalist, horticulturist, and poet. One day in … Continue reading
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Tagged Eskimo curlew, marlin, Robert Tuttle Morris
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Night Flight
Do you fly at night sometimes? I flew in my dreams last night with arms outstretched for gliding over rooftops. I didn’t see any birds although on landing back in reality in the morning I learned that an estimated 10,400 … Continue reading
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Tagged bird migration, James City county, Pocahontas County
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 