Four sites by train from London to Scotland over four days should net you between 80 and 90 species, which is right up there with doing the whole shebang by car.
The highlights will be bitterns and... More > bearded tits, and wintering thrushes and waterfowl, for which the country is internationally important. London offers several exotics – such as rose-ringed (aka ring-necked) parakeet – that have made the UK, and the official British list, their home.< Less
Four sites by train from London to Scotland over four days should net you between 80 and 90 species, which is right up there with doing the whole shebang by car.
The highlights will be bitterns and... More > bearded tits, and wintering thrushes and waterfowl, for which the country is internationally important. London offers several exotics – such as rose-ringed (aka ring-necked) parakeet – that have made the UK, and the official British list, their home.< Less
An image book featuring various birds found in the Midwest in a seasonal setting. Each season is started with a related Bible verse. All of the images were created by Lauren Strong.
We enter the world of Witold Kazmirsky, a saxophonist of indefinable talent who has spent the majority of his adolescence mourning the
disappearance of his parents and wallowing in a world of... More > dead-end jobs and alcoholism. One day he meets Albert, a bassist and seasoned veteran of his own peculiar brand of misanthropy and cynicism who takes Witold under his wing to teach him the ways of the world and to join him in musical experimentation. Following victory in a substantial personal injury claim to fund them, the pair set off for Europe where they hope to discover their roots and play their strange
form of improvisational jazz on various stages. Along the way Witold meets what appears to be the ghost of Edith Piaf and thereafter follows a disastrous path of obsession and infatuation to its conclusion.< Less
We enter the world of Witold Kazmirsky, a saxophonist of indefinable talent who has spent the majority of his adolescence mourning the
disappearance of his parents and wallowing in a world of... More > dead-end jobs and alcoholism. One day he meets Albert, a bassist and seasoned veteran of his own peculiar brand of misanthropy and cynicism who takes Witold under his wing to teach him the ways of the world and to join him in musical experimentation. Following victory in a substantial personal injury claim to fund them, the pair set off for Europe where they hope to discover their roots and play their strange
form of improvisational jazz on various stages. Along the way Witold meets what appears to be the ghost of Edith Piaf and thereafter follows a disastrous path of obsession and infatuation to its conclusion.< Less
THE woodpigeon is many things to many men. To the farmer, who has some claim to priority of verdict, it is a curse, even as the rabbit in Australia, the lemming in Norway, or the locust in Algeria.... More > The tiller of the soil, whose business brings him in open competition with the natural appetites of such voracious birds, beasts, or insects, regards his rivals from a standpoint which has no room for sentiment; and the woodpigeons are to our farmers, particularly in the well-wooded districts of the West Country, even as Carthage was to Cato the Censor, something to be destroyed.
It is this attitude of the farmer which makes the woodpigeon pre-eminently the bird of February. All through the shooting season just ended, a high pigeon has proved an irresistible temptation to the guns, whether cleaving the sky above the tree-tops, doubling behind a broad elm, or suddenly swinging out of a gaunt fir. Yet it is in February , when other shooting is at an end and the coverts no longer echo the fusillade of the.....< Less
This is a book about a family of Ospreys in North Carolina that the author observed and intensively studied during the spring and summer of 2007. In Part I, the author provides background information... More > on Ospreys regarding their biology, behavior, and conservation status. Part II then details the story of Wimpy and Bruno, two Osprey chicks who successfully fledged despite the early collapse of their nest. The narrative describes how these siblings learned to survive in the wide world beyond the nest --- from learning how to fly to learning how to hunt. Aided by over 100 full-color photos, the author extensively documents the "childhood" and "teenage months" of these fascinating raptors.< Less
Robert Kirkpatrick, a construction worker at the ballpark of the new Major League Baseball team beginning play in San Antonio next season, is blackmailed by a North Korean national into planting a... More > brief case inside a wall in the new stadium. Robert soon realizes that the brief case contains a sniper rifle and that the North Koreans plan to use it to assassinate the President of the United States at the team’s inaugural Opening Day festivities. Robert is then forced to run for his life and for the lives of his wife and daughter as the North Koreans attempt to silence him.< Less
One of my favorite things to do is to photograph birds. Some are taken in my backyard, others at nearby lakes and rivers and others at Greater Denver area parks. This calendar represents some of my... More > favorites from 2012. I was fortunate to watch a Great Horned Owl nest from the time the mother was sitting on the eggs through the hatch and to the day the babies flew off on their own. Also, I was able to photograph a Mandarin Drake. They are rare birds in the United States where only a few breeding groups are found. My photos were taken during every season in Colorado.
I have a bird gallery on my photography web site as well as many other galleries of my other photography interests. My web site is at: http://stephenjohnson.artistwebsites.com and I can be reached by e-mail at stevej46@comcast.net< Less
