birds | climate change | conservation | forests | Nature | trees
Tall Tree Climb
Solemnity. A state of grace. Embraced by fir, cedar, and hemlock. I am about 175 feet up…
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Excavations
As July comes to a close, I’m sharing an excerpt from chapter six of Halcyon Journey: In…
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birds | climate change | conservation | Nature | New Year
Kingfishers & Why We Need a Naturalist Renaissance
This week, I’m sharing the article I wrote for the July/August Issue of Birdwatching Magazine: “Why we…
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Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher
As April unfurls into May, a pair of belted kingfishers are darting in and out of a…
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Reflections on Kingfishers from Mesa Refuge
To write a book is a winding journey leading to many revisions and cuts until the final…
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birds | Nature | Philosophy | writing
Bird Wisdom: To Burrow is to Nurture
When the news is too much, burrow under soft covers; burrow into a novel with a happy…
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birds | Nature | Philosophy | physics
Waxwing Choreography
Murmuration: a great cloud of birds that fly in orchestrated formations As a lover of the Belted…
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birds | conservation | Democracy | Nature
Finding the Rare in the Familiar
On this past Martin Luther King Day, I had an epiphany about the belted kingfisher– a bird…
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