10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2022
This gave us several chances to experience them at various stages of growth. It may seem like a grown bird, but the rufous tips on the wing coverts of this Cocoa Thrush tell us it is still in its first year of life. Back in Trinidad, both Spectacled Thrush and Cocoa Thrush would nest in our backyard.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2021
Lesser Roadrunner and White-tipped Dove : Perhaps, dear reader, I should have started with a beautiful song to motivate you. And while the the gully-loving White-tipped Dove is a bird that is almost never seen, you had better know its ubiquitous song if you’re going to go birding in Michoacán. The site is much-degraded now.)
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2023
In Better Living Through Birding , Chris tells us stories of his life, a very unique life, but he also crafts his experiences so we can relate to them as birders and as people. Because being a birder means you experience life through that framework. And, as he did a decade ago, the joys and benefits of birding.
Animal Person
JULY 21, 2010
Here are some highlights/tips from that post and its comments: The insulin types are: Humalog/Novolog which are very fast acting (within minutes); R Insulins, which are fast acting; N or NPH (intermediate acting); L (Lente)-a bit longer acting; U (Ultralente)-very long; and Lantus (glargine)-the longest. Sometimes it was 9 or 10.
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 28, 2010
Some kittens will have certain things that they do when they are happy or when they want attention, for example, and by observing this behavior you will be able to pinpoint your kitten’s emotions better throughout its life, which is a wonderful bond that you can share. Grooming is a fantastic bonding experience for you and your kitten.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy. In the water I find a single black-tipped feather as their only trace.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2011
In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. The tips of their fingers is where the last fragment of their former Gothic self is maintained. Hat-tip to Stella. Nice piercing, dude!
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