10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text.

Birds 230

Birds Egypt Family Eagles 230

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?

2011 258

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 258

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. He effectively brings his point across by presenting facts and images and a little bit of hard science. It is the vision that counts!(To

2014 162

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 162