Birding: a Flock of Irreverent Essays

Article Titles:

• Giving Up Giving Up
• The Ideal Q & A
• The Least Favoured Bird
• You’ve Got Mail
• Holding One’s Tongue
• The Seven Stages of Seeing
• See, Toldyer
• Bird Names You Might Not Know
• Seen it Already
• Those Little Brown Jobs
• When is a Tick Not a Tick, Reprised
• ID Guides with a Colon
• $%@^ing Fall Warblers
• The Central Park Effect
• Loitering With Intent – to Watch Birds
• How Not to Learn Bird Songs
• The Raptor Dilemma
• What to Do When your Neighbour Reports an Eskimo Curlew in his Bird Bath
• Avian Inter-species Rivalry
• Know Thyself, said Socrates
• Anyone for Pelagic Birding?
• A Dummy’s Guide to Wildlife Photography
• Wildlife Photography 2: Getting Close and Personal
• Wildlife Photography – a Codicil
• Beak or Bill?
• Expecting the Magic Moment
• Learning to See the Obvious
• Are There Such Things as Boring Birds?
• How Not to Tell People about Penguins
• When is a Tick not a Tick?
• Do Birds Have a Sense of Fun?
• Alternative Birding Equipment
• It’s Not Just About the Plumage
• It Helps to Reflect Before Saying “Idiot!”
• Who Becomes Birders?
• Roses by Lots of Other Names
• Birding: Harmless Fun?
• Ticked Off
• The Taxonomy of Bird-Spotting, Part 1
• The Taxonomy of Bird-Spotting, Part 2
• Whiskers on Kittens
• Where to Go Birding
• Birding the Backyard
• Shorebird Mania
• I Vont to be Alone
• Asking For Directions
• The Shame of It
• You’ve Been Asked to Give a Talk on Birds…
• You’ve Got Mail
• The CBC
• Don’t Wait for Me While I, Um ….
• A Pedantic Note, with an Apology, Sort of
• The Numinous Moment