JANUARY 11, 2021 Washington, DC: Like many, I’m having trouble coming up with words to describe how the events of January 6, 2021, are affecting me. Some of those words must be kept private. But I’m offering a little photo essay about a flawed city that I have loved enough…
An ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) is a good one for a beginning birder. They nest in the Washington, DC, area, and during spring and fall, migrating birds show up in great numbers on the way to their nesting grounds as far north as British Columbia (spring) and their wintering grounds anywhere…
It wasn’t a birding trip. I was supposed to be doing some serious biking on this, the nicest day we’d had in at least six weeks. I was in exercise deficit. It felt glorious, being on the bike and not feeling the resistance in the very air that has defined…
