feb 16
This is an older drawing (ink on paper, roughly 22×30″), but I have dug it out because I was reading one of my new favorite blogs, which is featuring the Reddish Egret in its most recent post. Mostly geared to people who have a thing for birds, jeffreyagordon.com has the perfect combination of birding travels, stellar photography and informative writing. The Reddish Egret is one of my all-time favorite species; this is from a vagrant immature bird that spent some time in exotic Rhode Island a few years back.
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a worthy tribute to another blogger! Excellent work.
RE: Tufted Flycatcher: one of my most satisfying moments of tropical kismit was sititng at the base of a huge tree in a light rain waiting for it to stop, and staring up only to find the tiny active nest of a Tufted Flycatcher. Enjoying every moment of that, I happened to refocus further up into the gloom of the canopy and there was an troop of unusually quiet Howlers, which I also got to watch for what seemed hours. It was a genuine Henry Walter Bates moment.
Mark
Skip that last post. It was a TAWNY-CRESTED Fly you refered to. Nevermind. This is what comes of multitasking: trying to write a blog reply and simultaneously listen to how many ways I cannot use the uncensored version of Jay-Z’s “It’s A Hard Knock Life” as an intro/outro to an interview for broadcast. The Tufted Fly was way wicked cute though.
Mark
Hi Catherine–
Just back from Texas and Mexico and catching up on a huge backlog of blog reading (backblog?). I was truly brought up short by this–thank you so much. It’s wonderful to feel that people are “getting” what one is doing, or trying to do.
Beaming,
Jeff
When you said ‘stellar photography’ I though you meant, well, stellar photography. Imagine my disappointment! No wait, I wasn’t disappointed at all. Wonderful link, Fabulous photography.
Hi Catherine,
I so love your work. I ran across your site a long time ago because prior to my divorce, my full name was Catherine Hamilton too. Weird, right? Because I am an avid birder, lover of all things feathered, and of course my dog too.
Bumped into your profile on twitter and am now a follower… I’m twitter.com/katesnowbird. My profile is private but I figured I would introduce myself rather than being some kind of lurker.
Anyway, nice to “meet” you. Go birds!
Exquisite!
– @sslyb