Golden-crowned Kinglets are the quintessential birder’s bird: common enough and flashy to boot, but non-birders just don’t see them, ever. Point one out to a non-birder someday, and you’ll reap a look of dazed nonbelief. “Huh, I’ve never seen that here before!”
They appear to be moving through the Atlanta area in good numbers right now, […]

Traditionalists reject technology out of principle, Luddites out of fear. Me, I operate on ignorance: if I don’t know how to work it, and I don’t know what it’s going to do for me, then I don’t want anything to do with it. But if a new technotrick works, and if it gives me what […]

Sure, it’s chilly here in Atlanta, but we were surprised this morning to hear the crystal tinkling song of a Winter Wren in Alison’s back yard. The leaves have changed noticeably in just the few days I’ve been here, with maples and sweetgums glowing out the windows, and this afternoon the first White-throated Sparrow arrived […]

I’d heard a lot about the Huie sewage ponds in south Atlanta, and we set out eagerly this morning to see what we might see. It’s a much smaller area than I’d expected, and the steep banks of the four northern ponds would seem to make them less attractive than they obviously are, but the […]

 
I’ve been noticing a certain economy in the naming of streets and natural features here in Georgia, a tendency taken to extremes along the Ocmulgee River in Macon, where we found ourselves on this dark and stormy morning at the corner of Lower Poplar Street and Lower Poplar Road. It turned out to be a […]