WoodSong

I received a beautiful ‘thank you’ gift from Operation Migration yesterday. Two beautiful photos that brought tears to my eyes. I mean really, can you imagine the pure thrill and joy of being up in the air with these most beautiful and endangered birds? I can. I saw them with my own eyes while visiting […]

Yesterday was a banner day for Rough-legged Hawks in our area. On the way to town I spotted 5 of them, and 3 were dark-morphs (my absolute favorite). Then on the way home, we took a backtrail and found an obviously recently poached deer near home. (You can tell a poached deer when it’s been […]

“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”
(Kinky Friedman)
I remember:
The day we picked you up at the breeders’ home 13 1/2 years ago. You got out of the pen and teased your brother Boris like nah, nah, nah nah, nah.. I’m out and you’re not. But […]

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”
(John Lubbock)
We’re smack in the middle of a winter storm warning, which means our feeders are teeming with birds. I […]

‘”You can judge the moral stature of a nation by the way it treats its animals.”
(Mahatma Gandhi)
I received a link via a Michigan birding listserv yesterday, then another one from my buddy Mark (who has also blogged about this atrocity). I viewed the footage and was sickened beyond words. Everyone knows that dolphins are […]

After visiting with friends downstate this afternoon, we took a ride out to Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge provides important migration stopover habitat for the southern James Bay population of Canada geese and was designated a globally significant “Important Bird Area” by the American Bird Conservancy and Partners in Flight.The refuge also provides habitat […]