This week was exciting. Redpolls came to our birdfeeder for the first time in years. Redpolls look like small, pale sparrows except they have an iridescent red patch on their foreheads, and males have an additional red patch on their breasts.
They only migrate during the harshest of winters when they flee south to the Adirondacks from Canada for the milder weather. For these hardy little birds 20 degrees below zero and 12 inches of fresh snow is like a day on the beach.
Worldwide they live in the northernmost forests of Alaska, Scandinavia, and Russia. Bird books describe them as “irregularly common” because you either don’t see any, or 40 of them are trying to crowd into your birdfeeder at once.
Our new cat Cami loves bird watching. We keep her inside for her safety and theirs, but that doesn’t stop her from enjoying the fun.
I just found your blog and website. i’ll make sure to check back in now and then.
I also just got a used copy of your ‘how to carve wood’. it’s perhaps the best book on wood carving. I really mean that. I’ve been teaching and so how people teach has become an object of craft and quantification. i wish i had found it years ago.
Anyway, I want to see your t.v. show. the links to buy copy’s are broken and i can’t find anything about it at all online. Really, i think there’s an audience for another show now. There’s been a real movement going on over the last years.
Please let me know about these links or where i can see these shows?
and also, thanks so much for everything you’ve shared in your wood carving books. I know it takes time and care to ‘let the next one in’ as others have done for us.
_daniel
Thanks!