We were so excited to pass over the Mississippi River, because it meant we were heading “West” at last, making us feel that our adventure was back on track. Soon after crossing the Mississippi on I-10, we were awed by the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge. Now, we have been impressed by the 7 mile bridge in the Florida Keys many times (35,862 feet), but the Atchafalaya puts that one to shame at 96,100 feet long, and it…
We heard a young man say “there’s nothin’ out there” in an attempt to coerce his friends not to take a 3 mile Payne’s Prairie hike; we had found 34 birds species at that point. The comment caught my attention since a few days before, I had a similar thought while walking a dike at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. I continue fighting the worst characteristics of a “twitcher” mindset, where only the birds not…
Sallying, as defined in The Warbler Guide by T. Stephenson and S. Whittle (an awesome field guide), “feeding method in which a warbler flies from perch to catch prey then flies to the same or nearby perch”. This is very similar to what Chuck and I have been doing for the past 12 days. Chuck experienced a colossal failure of several teeth, including having his bridge break off both of its supporting teeth at the…