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On Tuesday morning, January 27, 2009, I was in Titusville, Florida enjoying this sunrise.By 2:25 pm that same day I was landing in Akron, Ohio, which looked like this from the air.We picked up the kids in town, drove back out to the farm and hunkered down, the dire weather warnings ringing in our ears. The power went of about 6 am Wednesday morning, as we knew it would. We awoke to an icy winter landscape.There would be no school Tuesday, Wednesday,......

I've never been so proud to be the author of a book as I was when I saw my friend Bart carrying a copy of The Young Birder's Guide in hands-free mode.In the booth where it was being sold at The Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival, dozens of copies of the book were purchased by blushing female customers following Bart's appearance.Steven King, John Grisham, Oprah, and that mom that writes lusty vampire books can just eat their collective hearts......

What was that old saying about the weather for sailors? Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning?I and a couple of dozen hearty souls are heading out to sea today on a pelagic trip. This is the final activity for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida.It's too early for the sun to be up this morning, so I'm using a sunrise form a few days ago. The weather looks promising, so I'm not......

When one travels to Florida, one might reasonably expect to encounter large numbers of old coots. As someone who has already gotten mailed membership offers from the AARP (at 46, I can already smell the Ben Gay aroma of 50) I wonder about the millions of people who retire to warm, sunny Florida.I can see why—there are amazing natural spectacles to behold among the birds and beasts, and there are great discounts at Denny's. There is a Denny's on every......

Oh my little fish swim nearin the cool shade of the mangrove clumpthere's nothing here for you to fearswim closer, little sugar lumpThese long pale legs and plumes you seeare just another mangrove treeswim through these roots and swish your tailyour slippery form I shall impaleand turn you back from whence you camethus Nature plays its endless ga......

When I was a kid, this bird was called the Louisiana heron. And dinosaurs walked the Earth.Now it's the tricolored heron. And the dinosaurs, except for me (and a few of my friends), are gone.I am in Florida for a spell, digging the bird scene, working the room, pressing the flesh, watching out for mouse ears, driving 35 mph in the fast lane 'cause that's how they roll here in the Sunshine State.I hope you are warm and toasty wherever YOU a......

A wise man wearing mukluks once told me:When the Adélie penguin comes out of its igloo and is immediately covered in wet snow it means that you are due for six more months of winter. It also means that you need more seal meat and whale blubber. And you're probably out of Funyuns, too.Words to live ......

I'd like tocall back Summertimeand have her stayfor just anothermonth or so...—Tom RushUrge for Go......

Clouds of feeding Wilson's phalaropes at Antelope Island State Park in Utah.Here, in no particular order, are images for another installment of Eye Candy of 2008. I think I've even got one more set in the archives here, but it's a bit hard to sort out since I lost a laptop hard drive about a month ago, and a lot of images went with it. Many were backed up, and I certainly got some back in the recovery process.Anyway, I am still looking back over......

Another image of the intense look on the sharpie's face as he waited for breakfast to show ......

The sharp-shinned hawk has been visiting our feeders once every other day or so for the past few weeks. We watched him sit on our brushpile for about 20 minutes, waiting for the feeder birds toreturn to the trees around the feeder. He watched them very intently. Not a single bird flew past or landed within his field of view that he did not stare holes in, wanting to chase, catch, kill, eat.I want to do a longer post about his sit-and-wait hunting......

For the past 20 years of my birding life I've tried to start each new year off with a good bird, an exciting field trip, or at least SOME sort of birding activity. This, unfortunately, often comes into conflict with the revelry of New Year's Eve, especially in years when I am playing music for someone's party. Arriving home in the wee hours of New Year's Day, crashing hard, then waking up well after the sun's appearance has usually meant that the......

We've had single-digit temperatures on several recent days here in southeastern Ohio. On one such frigid morning, I took this photograph of a fluffed-up tufted titmouse, visiting the suet dough tray on the front porch.It was so cold... (How cold WAS it?)It was so cold, that you could actually see the bird's cleavage.I could go on, but won't, in the fast-fading spirit of the seas......

Here is hoping that your 2009has nothing but rosy sunsets(and maybe some rosy finches and roseate spoonbills, to......

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