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Recent entries
some death-defying species from madagascar, my death defied and her extinction defied, yeah both in one trip - 2009-08-11
the borg - 2009-08-10
appearing soon in your hometown - 2009-08-10
tweet - 2009-08-09
don't be talking about me in front of my face, yall - 2009-08-06
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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.
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A bibliography of my published books and stories.
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Here's my card-counting FAQ. |
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| 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
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| Visit Peachfront's Cookbook, for recipes that are fast, cheap, and good. A work in progress. |
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| The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill blog by Mark Bittner about feral Cherry-Headed Conures in San Francisco. |
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bayou sauvage, white kitchen, blindingly orange baltimore orioles
2003-04-27 - 4:07 p.m.
photo © 2003 Roger Williams, all rights reserved
BF and I crawled out of bed at 5:45 A.M. and did a circuit of
Irish Bayou, Bayou Sauvage, back to White Kitchen, and a short
stop at the boardwalk trail to the Nature Center. It was sunny
and not too hot, with birds seemingly singing from every tree.
An expert in birdsong identification would have had a field day.
Notables: A Painted Bunting male in full adult plumage
posed next to a Downy Woodpecker to give us a better idea of the
size of this brightly glowing jewel. Two Baltimore Oriole
adult males paused in a bare, sunlit tree to give us an eyeful.
We discovered a good-sized heronry leaving the Bayou Sauvage
area to head to White Kitchen, with mostly white Egret
families but a few Little Blue Herons as well. At White Kitchen, I observed
an adult male Blackburnian Warbler whose "flaming orange"
throat could have passed for red as far as I was concerned.
photo © 2003 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved
Here's the list:
- Double-Crested Cormorant
- Anhinga
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Little Blue Heron -- white and blue phases
- Tricolored Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Green Heron
- Black-Crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
- White Ibis
- Wood Duck -- a beautiful male
- Mottled Duck
- Blue-Winged Teal
- Black Vulture
- Red-Shouldered Hawk
- Red-Tailed Hawk
- Common Moorhen
- Killdeer
- Laughing Gull
- Forster's Tern
- Mourning Dove
- Great Horned Owl, heard only
- Barred Owl, heard only
- Ruby-Throated Hummingbird -- fighting females
- Red-Bellied Woodpecker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Yellow-Throated Vireo, heard only
- Blue Jay
- American Crow -- if any Fish Crows were present, they didn't say anything,
whereas the Americans were fussing most of the time at Bayou Sauvage
- Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
- Carolina Chickadee
- Gray Catbird -- several present
- Northern Mockingbird
- European Starling
- BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, adult male, beautiful
- Pine Warbler
- Northern Cardinal
- Painted Bunting, adult male
- Red-Winged Blackbird
- Common Grackle -- a female Northern Cardinal physically attacked a male
Common Grackle at White Kitchen, practically leaping on his back in her fury
- Boat-Tailed Grackle
- Baltimore Oriole -- two striking, posing adult males
Some random images from the day:
Carnivorous pitcher plants at an undisclosed location in
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana:
photo © 2003 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved
White waterlilies were in full bloom as far as the eye could
see at the White Kitchen site, although the Bald Eagles have
finished nesting and seemed to be gone for the year:
photo © 2003 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved
The huge oak that collapsed at the Nature Center has been
successfully moved off the boardwalk:
photo © 2003 by Elaine Radford, all rights reserved
We did all that and still had time to sneak in a lunch at Maccaroni's
before the church crowd hit.
Back home, I've added Carolina Wren to the day's tally of birds. The
Carolina Chickadee family has been feeding outside my window, with some
of the birds looking into the nestbox. I still have hopes that they
will nest again. Earlier, a Mockingbird chased a Chickadee off the
suet feeder, but the Chickadee didn't go far and didn't seem all
that impressed by the Mockingbird's display of testosterone.
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