10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Like so many nomads human and otherwise, the Pine Siskins are pleased to call this valley home base. I’ve written before about how much I enjoy the abundance of Pine Siskins in my adopted home. I was expecting Pine Siskins here. After all, there are pines. But I wasn’t expecting so many. The siskins are much simpler.

Blackbirds 166

Blackbirds Adoptable Humane Family 166

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s not like I had forgotten lists created with friends of ‘songs with birds in the lyrics’, my personal favorites being Sondheim’s Green Finch and Linnet Bird and the Beatles’ Blackbird. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text.

Birds 224

Birds Egypt Family Eagles 224

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And when writing a field guide, it is accepted practice to adopt one of the above and to stick to it, with any questions or disagreements safely ensconced in the text, not in an actual change of species. It starts with water and wading birds and ending with meadowlark, blackbird, and bobolink.^ Fantasy is the key word here.

Costa Rica 227

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 227