Fox at Timber Creek
Birds, Books, and Biking. A deep dive every Sunday, often into a place I've explored. Forays into the NJ Pine Barrens, forgotten historical sites, and interesting places around the world. Zero AI content. Zero fox given.
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Back from a Beautiful Coast (opens the original)
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We spent last week in Monterey, Santa Barbara, and L.A. There we saw many birds, including many lifers, seals, sea lions, Elephant seals, and sea otters. We visited the Monterey Aquarium, Elkhorn Slough, Point Lobos, Big Sur, the Getty Center, the Pleasure Chest and Studs Theater in West Hollywood, and saw everything from a California Condor to legendary porn star Johnny Holmes’s bootprints in the cement. I’m going through over 1500 photos to share here.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-im
Owl Be Seeing You (opens the original)
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Lately I’ve been watching the ‘60s spy series The Prisoner on the Criterion Channel. A spy who resigns for reasons he refuses to tell, is captured by persons unknown and interrogated in “The Village,” which claims to be a retirement home of sorts for old spies, but also a place where their minds are picked for their secrets and loyalties. Each person is given a number, and they are played against one another and surveilled to a degree thought dizzying in its time, but less than what we’ve come t
Raptor Romp in the Navy Yard (opens the original)
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This summer has been a strange one of heat waves, cool spells, and intense storms driven by climate change and El Niño. A few weeks ago, the flat gray skies threatened rain and a dull day, so I forwent my bike ride and joined Philly Queer Birders for a walk at the Navy Yard. Birds and cool people can make even a dreary day wonderful. These walks, often in conjunction with BirdPhilly, offer both. I’d never visited the Navy Yard, which has a nice greenway and as expected, large ships. I was runnin
Lemon Party (opens the original)
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Kavinsky and the dream world of Outrun (opens the original)
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