They Grow Up So Quickly

I feel like I owe everyone an apology. It’s been ages since I’ve posted pictures of my children and for that, I am sorry. After all, they are... 

Kids grow up so quickly

So How’d Abuja Suit Ya?

Pretty well, thanks for asking (and, yes, that is the best line I can come up with after just thirty minutes sleep and six hours wandering around a... 

even if I'd seen very little else getting such good views of a bird like this would have made staying awake so long worthwhile

Birds of Chicken Inferno 2008

What a weekend! While the rest of the Northern Hemisphere responds to the siren song of summer by visiting beaches, lakes, and air-conditioned malls,... 

All hail the tenth Chicken Inferno!

Diamondback Terrapin at Jamaica Bay

In my walk around Jamaica Bay today I saw many cool birds, some neat bugs, and, best of all, a Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) burying... 

Diamondback Terrapin at Jamaica Bay

Clapper Rail at the Marine Nature Study Area

So, if you aren’t already sick of the birds of the Marine Nature Study Area after over imbibing on Black Skimmers and Great Egrets,... 

Clapper Rail taking a bath at the Marine Nature Study Area

Made of Fail

Kids today have such colorful colloquialisms, don’t they? Instead of describing an ill-conceived venture as wobbly, weak, lacking in coolness, or destined for... 

Made of fail

Black Skimmers at the Marine Nature Study Area

In my last post, about the Great Egrets at the Marine Nature Study Area, I said that I would be doing a full post about the birding... 

Black Skimmer skimming.

Swedish, Crested, and Manky

During my most recent trip to California, I had a chance to drop in on Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Los Angeles. The waterfowl there were mighty... 

Swedish X Crested Manky Mallard

Birding Ocean City

This past weekend, the Core Team - Sara, Mason, Ivy, and I - met with my siblings and aunts in Ocean City, Maryland to celebrate my mother’s 60th birthday... 

Ocean City, MD is fun but the birding is bleak.

Blue Crane, South Africa’s National Bird

Blue Crane Anthropoides paradisea Agulhas Plains, Cape Province, South Africa. April. One of the smallest of the 15 crane species... 

One of the smallest of the 15 crane species worldwide

Newest Posts

William Blake’s “The Birds”

By Corey July 24, 2008 1 comment

William Blake, the 18th and 19th century English poet, painter and engraver, is most remembered for his two linked collections of poems, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.  Of all of Blake’s poems, people are most familiar with the oft-anthologized “The Tyger” from the latter volume, though he wrote many other poems worth reading […]

I and the Bird #80

By Mike July 24, 2008 No comments yet

Welcome to the fourth year of I and the Bird! Our third anniversary bash really was something, thanks to our distinguished host and scintillating contributors. You can be forgiven for not reading through all the entries (…yet) but one response to the topic question spoke unexpectedly, albeit eloquently to the narrow scope of the topic […]

They Grow Up So Quickly

By Mike July 23, 2008 3 comments

I feel like I owe everyone an apology. It’s been ages since I’ve posted pictures of my children and for that, I am sorry. After all, they are both truly sensational individuals. While 10,000 Birds is older than either of them, Mason and Ivy still tie for first in my heart. They demand more time […]

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