Thinking About Palms
Dusk falling rosy
Bedtime for parrots, monkeys
wind rattles palm fronds.
wind rattles palm fronds.
Labels: bird poetry, Haiku, palm trees
Bill of the Birds
My name is Bill and I am a bird watcher...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
About Me
- Name: Bill Thompson, III
- Location: Southeastern, Ohio, United States
Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest by day. He's also a keen birder, the author of many books, a dad, a field trip leader, an ecotourism consultant, a guitar player, the host of the "This Birding Life" podcast, a regular speaker/performer on the birding festival circuit, a gentleman farmer, and a fungi to be around. His North American life list is somewhere between 667 and 669. His favorite bird is the red-headed woodpecker. His "spark bird" was a snowy owl. He has watched birds in 25 countries and 44 states. But his favorite place to watch birds is on the 80-acre farm he shares with his wife, artist/writer Julie Zickefoose. Some kind person once called Bill "The Pied Piper of Birding" and he has been trying to live up to that moniker ever since.
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- American Birding Association
- American Bird Conservancy
- The Nature Conservancy
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- The Spark Bird Blog
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- 10,000 Birds
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- Clay's Digiscoping 1000 Quest
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- Stokes' Birding Blog
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- Nikon's Birding to the EDG
- BirdChick
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4 Comments:
Just lovely, almost like a lullaby.
Beautiful images, Bill -- both poetic and photographic. (Much better than the "bird poetry" that was posted on the wall at my kids' school last week. About all I remember was the one that included rhymes about "hummer" and "bummer," and "owl" and "towel.")
I love this. I remember the first time I heard the wind in palm fronds at night. It was in Florida, and I remember thinking, "That's a sound I'd have to get used to." Clatter instead of swish.
Amazing pictures.
So calm, peaceful, serene.
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