Birds
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Baird’s Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
It bears repeating but one of the biggest advantages of 24 hour sun is you can do things while the rest of the world sleeps. Say its 4:30 in the morning, and you've been hit by insomnia and knowing you have to get up in a couple of hours you give up trying to sleep.
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Long-tailed Ducks (Clangula hyemalis)
Late last week I was out at the outflow of Marcil Lake (our water lake), birding at midnight. It was magical, as suddenly most of the species of birds I've been waiting for seem to have arrived up here. In a little less than an hour I saw some ten species of birds, six of
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Out
I don't get out on the land near often enough, and it seems like I forget just how incredibly beautiful, how incredibly sweeping, how incredibly majestic this land is. Last Sunday I got a reminder. Its funny, but essentially I can be in the wild almost the moment I step out of my door. If
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Light
There's been some discussion lately about the 24 hour, or mostly 24 hour sun that we are getting now. Most of it centres around how to sleep during it, or how it is messing up the internal clocks of those who can't sleep during it. I understand, and I've gotten enough first time visitors to
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The more things change…
Amongst the books I was recently given was an old bird field guide, Bird Guide – Land Birds East of the Rockies From Parrots to Bluebirds, by Chester A. Reed. It looks like it is a reprint from 1944, originally copyrighted in 1906. One of the first thing that struck me, while I was reading
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100
Way back when, the first Blog Carnival I had ever heard of was the (now sadly defunct) Tangled Bank. I submitted a post to one Tangled Bank edition, but it was the second Blog Carnival that I submitted a post to that really captured my imagination. The inaugural edition of I and the Bird, took