The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: birds

  • The Flowers and Birds of Hawaii

    These islands are filled with flowers and flapping with fowl!

  • The Life of Birds

    Learn more about these descendants of dinosaurs.

  • Embryonic Learning and Spotting Imposters

    Science is cool.

  • High Desert Museum

    Equal parts museum, art gallery, and zoo!

  • Exploring Seattle: The Seattle Aquarium

    I absolutely love aquariums. I’ve been wanting to check out the one in Seattle since I moved here 3 2/3 years ago, but I just never quite got around to it. After a while, you get kind of sick of doing stuff by yourself. I’m glad I waited, because exploring it with my boyfriend was…

  • Flying for the First Time

    I love birds. I love the attitude of crows, the energy of hummingbirds, the ostentatiousness of roosters, the menacing glare of raptors. I love that some have names like “Blue-Footed Booby” or “Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker”. That just makes me smile. It fascinates me that different species build their homes in unique ways. Some nest in the…

  • Peregrine-Nation

    There are many things about the city of Seattle that I absolutely love. One is that in spite of its overcrowded urban sprawl and nightmarish traffic, it really tries hard to accommodate the natural world whenever possible. The fortune that it spent on fish ladders so the salmon could transit the ship canal is a…

  • Rete Mirabile

    I love learning something new! On my drive in to work today, I was listening to National Public Radio, as is my custom, and I got to hear Bird Note, a 2 minute podcast that is a weekly staple of some NPR stations. I always look forward to their segments because I learn so much…

  • Vowels, Consonants, Climate

    I just love National Public Radio! It constantly causes me to look at the world through a whole new lens. This story, in particular, almost made me late for work because I refused to get out of my car until I’d heard the whole thing. Language lover that I am, now I’m even more focused…

  • The Crow from Hell

    I used to think crows were pretty cool. They are confident. They know what they want, and they get it. And they’re smart. Scientists have discovered that crows can recognize individual human faces. I could have told them that. I was once stalked by a crow. One day, after a long, particularly horrible graveyard shift…