Articles tagged with: Birds
The wonderful writer, blogger and internet activist Cory Doctorow just wrote a nice post on Boing Boing about my backyard bird photography and book Aerial Acrobats.
I’m really hoping to show how these small, often ignored, birds are endlessly fascinating. I’ve spent thousands of hours, and it’s always entertaining.
The image below also appears in the book, two grackles battling, each seeking to rule their common territory, rusty screeches echoing their determination.
Here’s more information on ordering my book, Aerial Acrobats.
A rather contentious pair of sparrows, I always have a great time watching their little tiffs, over almost as soon as they start.
Okay, this finch image from last summer is crying out for a caption, but I can’t think of one. I need some help. So I’m having a caption contest similar to what the New Yorker magazine does on their last page.
The best caption gets a free desktop wallpaper. Post your caption as a comment.
Buy a print of this image.
From reader and correspondent Timothy Ladd, a sonnet.
——— Wild Notes ———
The charming cardinal is our year-round friend,
Warbling wild notes unnoticed in the pines,
While other gaudy plumes will have us spend
Our greater powers on their rarer signs.
Content yourselves with easy arcs of swallows,
Twittering till the shallow end of day.
The jay will startle. Every starling follows
Raucously its twin. House sparrows say
Their feeble thoughts in hordes so loud
It drives the finch away. And we, bereft,
Hear feathers of a nightingale in cloud
Overhead, find down an eagle must have left,
And disregard all glory we have heard
Come streaming from that scarlet bird.
Tiny yellow bundles of energy, two male goldfinches shout avian obscenities midair.
Not a good photograph, but it gives an idea of their Lilliputian passion.
