PEACHFRONT SPEAKS

THE PEACHFRONT CONURE FILES
MY KENYA DIARY: IN QUEST OF EAGLES
MADAGASCAR DIARY: SERPENT-EAGLES, GOSHAWKS, AND MORE
TROPICAL STORM BILL CRUSHES OUR HOUSE LIKE A BUG PHOTOS
Hurricane Katrina Disaster Recovery and Photos
A Very Partial Index to the Entries
BIRDS***BIRDING***WILDLIFE GARDENING
SF/BOOKWORM***NUCLEAR/SPACE AGE
BLACKJACK*** TRAVEL
a donation is never required to read my site, but any you care to give will go to the bird food fund

photo copyright © 1987 by Elaine Radford, all rights reserved

100 things about me

Read this before you email me for the first time. Personal mail only. No spam. No mean people. If you can't say something nice, I'm not interested.

Recent entries
grand canyon bird list: may 13-14, 2008 - 2008-05-21
minus zero - 2008-05-20
i met brad pitt once, want my autograph? - 2008-05-19
floods, floods, tornadoes, more floods -- SOOOO sick of the stupid storms - 2008-05-16
shades of pink, orange, and red in a condor's face - 2008-05-15

By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets.

A bibliography of my published books and stories.

Here's my card-counting FAQ.

Visit my original website but I recommend putting pop-up/banner blockers on first.

A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!! The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit the localroger diary.

Visit Peachfront's Cookbook, for recipes that are fast, cheap, and good. A work in progress.

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill blog by Mark Bittner about feral Cherry-Headed Conures in San Francisco.

Lake Martin etc. bird list

2002-11-26 - 3:45 p.m.

Back for the evening from our three night visit to Breaux Bridge. I'll tell all later but for now will just post my bird list.
1. Neotropic Cormorant (Lake Martin)
2. Double-crested Cormorant
3. Anhinga
4. Great Blue Heron
5. Great Egret
6. Snowy Egret
7. Little Blue Heron
8. Tricolored Heron
9. Cattle Egret
10. Black-Crowned Night Heron
11. White Ibis
12. Black Vulture
13. Turkey Vulture
14. Blue-Winged Teal
15. Osprey
16. Red-Shouldered Hawk
17. Red-Tailed Hawk -- both Eastern and Krider's
18. Common Moorhen
19. American Coot
20. Killdeer
21. Western Sandpiper
22. Rock Dove
23. Mourning Dove
24. Inca Dove
25. Barred Owl -- heard only
26. Belted Kingfisher
27. Red-Bellied Woodpecker
28. Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
29. Downy Woodpecker
30. Northern Yellow-shafted Flicker
31. Pileated Woodpecker
32. Eastern Phoebe
33. VERMILION FLYCATCHER (Avery Island)
34. Eastern Kingbird
35. Blue Jay
36. American Crow
37. Fish Crow
38. Carolina Chickadee
39. Tufted Titmouse
40. Carolina Wren
41. Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
42. Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher
43. Eastern Bluebird
44. Northern Mockingbird
45. European Starling
46. Yellow-Rumped Warbler ("Myrtle")
47. PALM WARBLER (Avery Island, two "western" and one "yellow palm," with the yellow bird being especially bold and confiding)
48. Swamp Sparrow
49. White-Throated Sparrow
50. Northern Cardinal
51. Red-Winged Blackbird
52. American Goldfinch
53. House Sparrow
I also saw several flighted Mallards on Bayou Teche but I am not counting them as I strongly suspect that they are at least semi-domesticated.

back - next

All Rights Reserved, Copyright © 2002-200- by Elaine Radford

They have forgotten.
We will never forget.

Contact your representatives and tell them you want action not distraction.