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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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A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!!
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My Bird Lists -- My Louisiana State Life List, My Yard List and, tah dah, My World Life List.
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orange lilies, white lilies
2003-05-04 - 6:10 p.m.
We woke up to discover that two of our Halloween lilies had opened.
© 2003 by Elaine Radford, all rights reserved
Does it mean that these lilies will bloom all summer and on
through October? Or does it mean that they will bloom twice
a year, late spring and late fall? Either way, I will be delighted
with a plant originally bought to decorate the table at Halloween.
The alarm didn't go off on time, so it was already muggy and buggy when
BF and I arrived at Big Branch some time after 7 A.M. We were too late
to catch the Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers, but we did observe three other
species of woodpeckers and a nuthatch pounding away to boot. Notable:
A male Red-Winged Blackbird strutting daintily through the white
waterlilies.
© 2003 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved
Note: Italicized birds were seen roadside on the
drive to Big Branch.
And here's the list:
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Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Wood Duck
- Rock Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Red-Headed Woodpecker
- Red-Bellied Woodpecker -- and lots of them!
- Northern "Yellow-Shafted" Flicker
- Eastern Kingbird
- Red-Eyed Vireo -- heard only
- Blue Jay
- American Crow
- Carolina Chickadee
- Brown-Headed Nuthatch
- Northern Mockingbird
- European Starling
- Eastern Towhee
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Northern Cardinal
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Red-Winged Blackbird
- Common Grackle
Telephoto test: Here's a picture of the Nuthatch taken from
about 100 feet away, while he was pounding away on the pine tree.
© 2003 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved
And here's the Northern Flicker nest that we discovered, although the
Flickers skedaddled too fast to be photographed, with the male flying
around the territory and the female zipping back into the hole.
© 2003 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved
Later we went over to J.'s so that BF could fix her computer. It took
hours to track down the problem but it seems to be fixed now. Whew!
The geese milled around and checked out the car and peeped into the
house to see what we were doing. I dug up a few of the orange iris
from the woods in back of her house and planted them in the
front garden. They needed to be divided to give them a chance
to bloom.
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