Spectacular day at Fort Greene Park! Thirty four total species, including 11 warblers - WORM-EATING, Nashville, Prairie, Magnolia, Black-and-white, Black-throated Blue, Yellow-rumped, and Yellow, along with Northern Parula, American Redsart, and many Ovenbird - Blue-headed and Red-eyed Vireo; Savannah, Swamp, Song, Chipping, White-throated and House Sparrow; Wood, Swainson's, and Hermit Thrush, and Veery; lots Gray Catbird and Ruby-crowned Kinglet; and a gorgeous pair of Scarlet Tanager!
Turtles, some of the way down
Putting aside the absolute inanity of the expressed thought itself, what's remarkable about this whole class of Thought Leaders is that none of them are capable of writing lucidly or coherently. They really could have used some humanities courses!
Really quite something that on a day of gross, massive layoffs, Vox - a VC-funded, for-profit media company - is still pushing their fake-public-radio "give us free money" ask. I'll forgo giving Jim Bankoff my bucks, thanks!
Back on my little walks, Manhattan edition
And again: Happy New Year, y'all.
2022 Final Bird Tally: 283 species! Including my 100th species in California, Colorado, and Idaho.
2023 First Bird: House Sparrow, our noble Anthropocene companion.
January 1 tally: 28 species on a lovely day in Prospect Park! #birdingbrooklyn
Bread! Yesterday, and today.
From last night: yuca latkes! Happy Channukah to all - eat something fried today!
#channukah #latkes #alternatetubersIt's the anniversary of the US invasion of Panama and there's a strange (to me) meme going around saying how many people - especially in the US (?) - don't know that, because it's been repressed.
I find this to be pretty interesting because, as someone who was alive - a child! but alive! - I remember quite clearly that this was an INCREDIBLY media-saturated war. It was on CNN, constantly. It was on the evening news. "Doonesbury" had weeks of strips focused on it. Here's the NYT front page!
