Dreambirds (Jody Bergsma Collection) by David Odgen, 1997 I picked up this book at a local thrift store. It is a gorgeously illustrated children’s book. A few years ago I picked up a wonderful print by Jody Bergsma https://www.bergsma.com/ Similar to this: Finding a book full of this artists vivid, flowing images evoking Alaska & … More Review: Dreambirds
I was first introduced to this book as a young child of maybe 4 or 5 while my family (consisting of three girls and two parents) lived in a suburb of Chicago in the late 60s & early 70s. I LOVED this book. My mother had to read it to me many times. Actually, she … More Review: Are You My Mother?
Friday February 15, 2019 I needed to catch a plane at the Salt Lake City airport Saturday morning so I maximized my birding options and drove down Friday evening so I could bird the Bear River Refuge. I love that it is located between my home and the airport. I have rarely come out to … More Bear River Refuge – Feb 2019
American Robin February 10, 2019 The American robin a ubiquitous bird heralding spring but coming in a flock of 30 or more to my house. “The American robin is a migratory songbird of the true thrush genus and Turdidae, the wider thrush family. It is named after the European robin because of its reddish-orange breast, … More American Robins
December 20, 2018 Happy birthday to Shanna! We started the day in Moab waking early and heading south. The goal was to visit the Cliff Dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park https://www.nps.gov/meve/. We were not disappointed. It was a glorious clear cool day. Snow was piled in the shadows but the roads were clear. The … More Mesa Verde – 2018
It turns out that the Titusville/Canaveral (i.e. Space Coast) area of Florida is going to be on my regular destination list now since I have some wonderful friends who live there and who are always ready to have me come visit. I was there in late November on a trip that got cut really short … More Florida’s Space Coast
In my review of a convertible Camaro last month, I concluded that for birding, you were really better off with something far more boring. So I went to Florida again. And rented a different car. A more boring car. I am SUCH a giver. And it was boring. Really, really, really boring. So boring that … More Car for birders review #7: late model Nissan Sentra
Wednesday December 19, 2018 We (Shanna, Jenny, John & Bill) left Idaho heading for Texas. We left early enough to make a brief stop at the Bear River Refuge on our way south. We didn’t do the full auto tour loop but only drove in to the viewing tower. Canada geese against the Wasatch front … More Bear River Refuge – Dec 2018
First ever year I made MVP Gold on Alaska Airlines! i.e. over 40,000 miles flown. All within the continental US. That goes a fair way to explaining my bird list totals, though surprisingly not a huge amount of my time was spent birding on many of those trips. People to see, events to attend, that … More Arlene’s bird list for 2018
I had a great birdy year. Mostly I saw the birds of the intermountain west. Hooray, I got to see 13 new species thanks to Arlene and a trip to Nome AK: American tree sparrows, Arctic warblers, Bartail godwit, Bluethroat, Common eider, Eastern yellow wagtails, Fox sparrows – taiga race, Gray cheeked thrush, Long tailed … More Jenny’s bird list for 2018
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