It feels auspicious to launch this blog on National Bird Day. While I’ve always loved birds, it took buying a (used) “real camera” in March 2024 to take birding more seriously. Through birding, I’ve learned the natural world can include a city block as much as a trail or park. The great agrarian writer and farmer Wendell Berry often reflects on the dangers of defining nature as separate from us. Birds’ parallel world is woven through our own.
Tibbetts Brook Park, my favorite birding hotspot, is a place I visited for years “before” birding allowed me to notice a range of wintering ducks and even a bald eagle. So, welcome and happy reading! I’m so glad you’re here.
A Parallel World 