10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
Skimmers, of course, use that laterally flattened mandible to cut the water and leave a trail of light–intriguing to small fish at dusk. When the fish rise to investigate, a split-second snap of the bill captures a meal. From the tail band, it looks like an immature. It’s a three-year seagle.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2012
I remember way back in that same year commissioning the services of an active sport fishing boat to head out into the ‘deep’, 30 miles beyond the lighthouse at Cape Point itself, in search of a working trawler, in the hope of adding a suite of pelagic sightings to my expanding ‘life list’ of Southern African birds.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Harper contributed artwork to 120 issues of Ford Times, illustrating articles on topics ranging from travel to fish to recipes. Starting in 1956, Harper wrote the text for the articles as well. But it is the birds for which he is most remembered and the birds that appear to have captured his creative heart.
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