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Nairobi, Kenya, June 2005

It’s almost six months to the day since I started blogging. It’s quite amazing really how fast time has flown by. Not just time: I’ve already flown to North America seven or eight times times, to the Middle East five times, to India, Mexico, Brazil, Hong Kong twice, and to Africa three [...]

This month’s evocative avian verse comes from American author and poet, Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933). Her poem, Dusk in June is short and sweet:
Evening, and all the birds
In a chorus of shimmering sound
Are easing their hearts of joy
For miles around.
The air is blue and sweet,
The few first stars are white,
Oh let me like the [...]

Little Swifts Apus affinis
Luanda, Angola 28 May 2005
 
The following photographs were taken from the roof of the Meridien Hotel, Luanda in the late afternoon as a group of about twenty Little Swifts appeared out of nowhere and began hawking over the centre of the city some distance from me. Many of the photos are highly-cropped [...]