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I did this last year, so I may as well do it again: Number of species seen: I did a lousy job of recording, so I don’t know. New life birds: 21 First life bird: I said it would be…

Patrick at The Hawk Owl’s Nest started a birder survey meme. I’ll play along… What state (or country) do you live in? MI, USA How long have you been birding? Seriously, about 15 years. Are you a “lister”? I keep…

Obligatory tally of 2005 birds: Number of species seen: 513 New life birds: 201 Last life bird: Cinnamon Woodpecker (Celeus loricatus), Pipeline Road, Gamboa, Panama Total life birds: 887 otal ABA-area birds: 568 Total state birds: 304 Total birds in…

Everybody gets songs stuck in their heads on occasion. To most, this is an annoyance. For me, it is major brain spam. I am so prone to this phenomena that I purposely avoid listening to most music, especially if it…

It was cool to discover that Slate.com linked to my blog in a recent “Today’s Blogs” column, quoting my comments on wildlife on military bases. This prompted an email from an editor at the Los Angeles Times, who said she…

I was multi-tasking while in Central America, but my husband and I managed to get in a good deal of birding every day. I went without any expectations of how many species I would see, and mostly just wanted to…

Aydin at Snail’s Tails passed me my first meme – the book meme. I’ve seen this circulating among a lot of blogs I read, so I thought I might get tagged sooner or later. Total number of books I own/owned:…

Yesterday I went to the funeral of the mother of a friend. I never met his mom, Joann, but funerals are for the living, and this man has done so much for me. Joann had Alzheimer’s disease, which also claimed…

Okay, so I know I’ve already done one self-promotional post. But actually I tend to be publicly modest about my work; this tends to be detrimental, as I my position is funded entirely by soft money and it would probably…