This is a large, brown and white seabird that exhibits the gliding flight close to the ocean waves common to shearwaters, albatross, and other pelagic seabirds.  The upperparts are a gray-brown with pale feather edges on the back and upper tail.  The underparts are a contrasting white.  This is a general common color scheme for […]

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploringwill be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. –T.S. Eliot. This is a medium-sized tern that is circumpolar – breeding in the Arctic and sub-Arctic northern areas and then getting a second summer by migrating to the

Came the spring with all its splendor.  All its birds and all its blossoms, All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. his is a small songbird of forest edges and dense brush.  It’s about 4.5 inches long, has yellow underparts and olive upperparts, pinkish legs, and a small pointed bill.  Males have a gray

Out of their loneliness for each other two reeds, or maybe two shadows, lurch forward and become suddenly a life lifted from dawn or the rain. It is the wilderness come back again, a lagoon with our city reflected in its eye.We live by faith in such presences.  It is a test for us, that