Thursday, April 15, 2010

Buzz Birds







Blue Jay pic on the way to work....Bear from Tuesday...cloudy grey hazy warm.....Phoebe on the Fallen Cedar at lunch...and the two Buzz Birds I saw Tuesday came over..pics....circled about...I forgot to send in my taxes...hmmph...link of the day:
FAUNA
OF THE NATIONAL PARKS
OF THE
UNITED STATES

A PRELIMINARY SURVEY
OF FAUNAL RELATIONS IN NATIONAL PARKS

By
GEORGE M. WRIGHT, JOSEPH S. DIXON
BEN H. THOMPSON


http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5456371

oh, the above link needs a subscription...here's link with book:

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/fauna1/fauna4c5.htm

found a copy on Amazon and snagged it...and one can read about Wright here:

quote

As Wright himself once put it, “Our national heritage is richer than just scenic features. The realization is coming that perhaps our greatest national heritage is nature itself, with all its complexity and its abundance of life, which, when combined with great scenic beauty as it is in the national parks, becomes of unlimited value.”

http://www.npca.org/magazine/2010/spring/call-of-the-wild.html

unquote

and the Wright Society page:

http://www.georgewright.org/

2 comments:

yosemite faith said...

too bad about your taxes. great photos - saw via the webcams that the snow has melted on the valley floor - at least in the open spaces.

yosemite faith said...

not sure if i have shared this but think i have so i won't tell the entire story. rhonda(rip) and i were in housekeeping camp for 3 weeks and got to see the beginning of the nest site choice and materials discussion between 'ma & pa' bird from start to finish! AMAZING! finished nest was beautiful. also funny to see pile of rejects on the ground below that did not make the cut.