Birding In The Hood
Posted Jun 27th, 2006 at 10:45 am in Birding
There’s a fasinating post over on Bootstrap Analysis about looking for bird’s in Detriot’s “urban prairies”. These are areas that have largely been abandoned and left to rot due to socioeconomic factors. She provides a link that graphically shows this in action, comparing a 1949 and 2003 aerial view of a Detroit neighborhood. (Be sure to mouseover the image).
While I’m sure I shouldn’t laugh at any of it, the image of birding in the ‘hood seems ripe for parody. Somebody call Saturday Night Live.
Another “birding in the ‘hood” post is forthcoming. One of the more amusing things, I guess, about this kind of birding is on the occasions we get out of the car, we carry golf clubs. Not much use against a gun (a woman was shot on the street about 7 blocks from where we were last weekend), but we could wallop a dog or unarmed thug with a good driver. You see people carrying them all the time in some of the seedier parks around here.
Good to hear Nuthatch. I look forward to it.
I can just imagine one car driving up to a dealer on a street corner to buy drugs, and the next driving up and asking, “Hey, do you know where the Fieldfare was last seen?”