Category Archives: birds

Friday Feathers- slaty-tailed trogons, masked tityras, and one big, beautiful fly

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

First day out of the box on the island and we had birds, thunderstorms, and a gorgeous huge tropical fly caught by researchers (and released unharmed). The birds were very cool but the bugs, oh my, the bugs. And now, … Continue reading →

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Friday Feathers- Woodstorks at the 16th Hole

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

I am Artist in Residence this week at Spring Island Trust in Okatie, SC, drawing and painting birds and sunlit landscapes with palmettos and broad marshes, alligators, live oaks dripping Spanish moss. Wonderful wading birds: tricolored herons, little blues, greens, … Continue reading →

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New Orleans Gumbo Report

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

On Magazine Street over margaritas and sherry-soaked scallop tacos, a New Orleans friend put it this way: “we are drinking people with a parading problem”. He was talking about his relatively local wheelbarrow parade, but he might have meant the … Continue reading →

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