HeyJaredRyan Goldberg's Field Notes
Dispatches from Ryan Goldberg, journalist and author of Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds.
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Swifts (opens the original)
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In September 2017, a little more than a year after I began birding, I witnessed something that seemed scarcely believable until I had seen it myself. At a sprawling brickyard on San Francisco Bay, in San Rafael, California, I watched thousands of Vaux’s swifts swirl like a tornado above two tall chimneys, then pour inside them. It was dusk, and a burly man, seated and wearing fingerless leather gloves, counted those little gray birds with a clicker in one hand as they entered their nighttime roo
Wild Inside (opens the original)
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Last week I went to see “Wild Inside,” director Penny Lane’s new documentary about Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl that in 2023 escaped the Central Park Zoo and became a celebrity over his year of freedom. On my way to IFC Center, where it’s currently playing, a violent rain seemed to find all the old streambeds in Greenwich Village. Sixth Avenue flowed like a river. Even in this city, I thought, nature finds a way. It can be paved over, it can be crowded in by skyscrapers, it can even be caged—bu
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