2 January 08

Birds from a Moving Train

Birds from the train Numenius and I went to Berkeley on Monday to visit his family, and also for me to meet up with an old chum from boarding school. This was a wonderful experience, made more so by the incongruity of it (the last meal we ate in the same room was on wooden benches and no doubt involved suet along the way, Hogwarts-style; this one was in a house owned by Rickey Henderson) and the joyful discovery that we were now really different people with a shared, hilarious (from this vantage-point) past.

I didn’t want to drive to Berkeley: New Year’s Eve is not the time to be on the road. So we took the train. Having resolved to do a Big Green Year (BIGBY) I started drawing what birds I could see from the train window.

Richard Hall is my inspiration for local birding by bike; the Boothroyds are my inspiration for an environmentally-responsible big year. I have started a list of self-propelled BIGBY species seen in the sidebar of this page.

Posted by at 10:44 AM in Bird of the Day | Link |

  1. I know this is your sketching blog, but holy cow! A house owned by Rickey?! Does your friend write the rent check to Rickey Henderson? :)


    — Chris    3. January 2008, 17:23    Link

  2. Chris: thanks for the correction of Rickey’s name.

    I’ll ask if she makes the check out to him or not.

    :)


    — Pica    3. January 2008, 17:35    Link

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