"Birds will give you a window, if you allow them. They will show you secrets from another world - fresh vision that, though it is avian, can accompany you home and alter your life. They will do this for you even if you don't know their names - though such knowing is a thoughtful gesture. They will do this for you if you watch them." ~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Sula dactylatra: Masked Booby
There was a fantastic article in The New York Times yesterday, Half a Lifetime Spent in Pursuit of Waterbirds, that profiled Theodore Cross, a birder who just released a new book.
The Times article says that Waterbirds "... is part visual encyclopedia, part memoir of a nearly half-century pursuit of birds." The photos featured with the story are breathtaking.
Cross is 85 now, and after spending the last half of his life photographing birds he says "the memories of them help me accept the brevity of the time that lies ahead.” Grace.
Doodled from one of Mr. Cross's photos featured in The New York Times article.