PEACHFRONT SPEAKS

a very incomplete index to the entries

2003-03-21 - 2:51 p.m.

If I didn't personally invite you to my site, you may be visiting as a result of the above banner. Here's the deal: My diary is mostly a personal record and photo album for me and my friends. But if you want to have a look, feel free. This is a very incomplete index to a very few selected diary entries that may inform or entertain you if you happen to share my interests.

Birds

• The Peachfront Conure Files -- an index to stories about my life with Peachfront Conures.
• A reprint of my diary about breeding Peachfront Conures, Aratinga aurea.
• A true Button Quail Christmas story from 1983.
• Bachman's Warbler, once collected for hats in Mandeville and now likely extinct worldwide

Birding

• My Madagascar bird list and Madagascar Serpent-Eagle is on it, can you say the same?
  
• Johannesburg, South Africa: My wild one day birding spree of Marievale and Suikerbosrand plus my South Africa bird list
  
• London: A visit to the London Wetland Centre, and you can get there on your Zone 1/2 ticket and never have to park a car, so what are you waiting for?
  
• Point Pelee: A Quest for Warblers, is a day-by-day trip report of the Ontario, Canada National Park which starts here. The trip list is here.
• Official Trip List from the Spring 2005 Hawk Migration in Panama.
• My New Mexico bird list from the Festival of the Cranes.
• Whoo hoo -- My Bird List from -- wait for it -- Kenya in East Africa. Lots of eagles on this one, folks.
• A mid-April bird list for southern Arkansas.
• The rookery at Lake Martin, Louisiana in March with a Roseate Spoonbill photo album.
• My yard list as of Dec. 24, 2003
• A bird list from the "river of raptors" migration in the state of Veracruz, Mexico which we visited Oct. 3 - 11, 1998.
• The Snake River National Bird of Prey Conservation Area in Idaho with our trip list for May 4-11, 2002.
• A bird list from the San Diego, California area Oct. 6-11, 2003.
• Probable first breeding of Gray Kingbirds in Louisiana is discovered when adults with fledged young are found behind UNO Lakefront Arena
• A bird checklist from the spring raptor migration on the Texas Gulf Coast from March 25-April 2, 2000
• A trip diary of Panama City and Gamboa, Panama in June, with two bird lists here and here, and some helpful facts about visiting Panama here.
• Bayou Sauvage, Irish Bayou, and White Kitchen in late April.
• A Lake Martin, Louisiana bird list from November 2002.
• My first Calliope Hummingbird for my backyard list
• Some Mandeville, Louisiana bird day lists can be found here for a January list, here for a March list, here for an April list.
• Here is my Trinidad trip report, and here is the resulting bird list.
• The story of a spring fall-out at Grand Isle, Louisiana.
• Pine Island, a private rookery near Madisonville, Louisiana, at sunset.

Note: I am located in western St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.

• Tropical Storm Bill, getting close to 3 months later -- The cardinal climber and the mistflower are back.
• Tropical Storm Bill, a month later -- The roofing and fencing teams have left pretty much stomped bare dirt in place of my hummingbird garden. I will be truly starting from zero.
• Tropical Storm Bill -- My hummingbird garden is destroyed.
• The Butterfly Fest at the Mizzell farm and nursery in Folsom, Louisiana
• Spring backyard photographs
• Before and after photographs of my hummingbird and wildflower patch, located in a once-ugly corner notable only for the air-conditioning unit that the Blue Runner used to live under.
• More photographs of the hummingbird patch from late June 2003.
• Invasive Chinese tallow trees must die so that native trees can live -- and I actually know how to kill them so they don't come back. A must read if you are in the dark about how to fight these pests.

Note: If I feel a book to be of no merit, I won't review it, so do not visit expecting "slams."

• Spider Robinson thinks SF is dying
• Messiah by Gore Vidal, 1954.
• On hypergraphia.
• On reader reaction to The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, published online by kuro5hin.org and which can be currently read online for free right here.
• Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake is a must.
• Some other book discussion found here, here, and right here.

• A visit to the National Atomic Museum -- lots of photos
• A guest entry by Roger Williams on the Columbia with personal photos from 1981.
• My memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• My memories of being unsuccessfully recruited for the nuclear submarine program.

• Madagascar in 4 parts: Part 1, Ranomafana, Part 2, Ankarafantsika, Part 3, Masoala and the Madagascar Serpent-Eagle, and Part 4, Berenty and Andasibe.
• Point Pelee: I blogged this one real-time, every day, with my first day of the trip report starting right here.
• Alberta: Of Bears and Bighorns -- Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
• Who's crazy now? The ultimate mileage run: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
• Germany: Heidelberg and Mainz, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
• Costa Rica/Guanacaste: Part 1 and Part 2 of our independent trip to Costa Rica.
• Kyoto Trip Report: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and some budget tips.
• My Panama Spring Hawk Migration trip report pt. 1, going on to part 2, and concluding with part 3.
• My Munich trip report starting with Part 1, going on to Part 2, and concluding with Part 3.
• My Paris trip report starting with Part 1, and continuing with Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
• My New Mexico Diary for mid-November 2004 starts right here, with Part 2: Bosque del Apache Festival of the Cranes starting right here, and Part 3: A Visit to Trinity, starting right here.
• My Atlantic City/Cape May story for late August/early September starts here.
• My southern Arkansas diary for mid-April 2004 starts here.
• My Kenya Diary -- Quest for Eagles is a four part adventure starting right here, then continuing onward to Part Two, then Part Three, and finally Part Four. Don't forget my Animal check list with all the big cats and of course my bird check list with 50 raptors not including the owls! My answers to some frequently asked questions about Kenya as of early 2004.
• My trip report to England with lots of pictures starts right here.
• Dental tourism in Tijuana, Mexico with a few highlights from the San Diego, California area.
• Chasing the spring raptor migration on the Texas Gulf Coast in late March/early April 2000
• My 42nd trip to Vegas -- Rio and Paris
• Mirage, Las Vegas, September 2001
• Treasure Island, Las Vegas, August 2001
• Harrah's/Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans
• My trip report from the Caribbean island of Trinidad in June 2001
• Trip report from Lake Martin, Breaux Bridge, and Avery Island area from November 2002.
• A couple of pictures of Lake Tahoe from Stateline, on the border of Nevada and California.
• Cruising from New Orleans to Cancun and Progresso in Mexico, with the mandatory visits to Chichen Itza.
• Mandalay Bay Casino Resort, the penthouse suite, October 2000.
• The George Ohr "Mad Potter of Biloxi" Museum in Biloxi, Mississippi with several pictures and a brief bird note.
• A huge suite at the Silverstar Casino Resort on the Choctaw reservation in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
• What you see when you view the Grand Canyon from the air.
• A diary of our visit to Panama City and Gamboa Resort in Panama, Central America (not Panama City, Florida). Bonus: Some helpful stuff to know before you go to Panama.
• The "River of Raptors" migration spectacle in Veracruz state, Mexico.

• Roger Williams' guest entry about the disaster.
• When a 20,000 pound Red Pin Oak falls on your house.
• Using a 90 foot tall, 15 ton crane, to remove the oak tree and other debris over my house.
• My hummingbird garden destroyed, almost on its two year anniversary.
• My parrot aviary destroyed.
• My initial reaction to the disaster, as reported on the public library computers, since we had no utility service for several days after, can be read here and here.

• Biloxi and Gulfport, six months, three weeks later.
• Three houses and their different fates on the Mandeville lakefront
• Rough draft of a letter to the insurance company
• Our first pictures from the look see before our power was restored
• Photos from the lower 9th ward
• Photos from Empire, Buras, Venice
• Return of the Audubon Zoo
• A guest entry by Roger showing the destruction of his childhood home in New Orleans East

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