Birding can be a meditative communion with nature... or just a fun treasure hunt. atlbirds.substack.com/p/rare…

Bird of the Week: Northern Parula. atlbirds.substack.com/p/bird…

Hit 20,000 words today on my fledgling novel. It's amazing how committing to publishing weekly chapters will push me to sit down and write.

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?” —Annie Dillard, A Writing Life atlbirds.substack.com/p/fare…

Bird of the week: Yellow-billed cuckoo atlbirds.substack.com/p/bird…

My latest post, "It Was Church" about a Sunday in the park, is live on Nature Is a Language. atlbirds.substack.com/p/it-w…

Bird of the Week: Lawrence’s Warbler Finding hybrid birds in the wild is wild. atlbirds.substack.com/p/lawr…

My ode to fall migration: atlbirds.substack.com/p/on-f…

Why I love birds: substack.com/home/post/p-214…

Bird of the Week: The scissor-tailed flycatcher atlbirds.substack.com/p/bird…

Building a Better Backyard for Birds chronicles my two-year transformation from sad lawn to miniature wildlife preserve: atlbirds.substack.com/p/buil…

Join my Birds Georgia webinar tonight at 7pm ET, Building Better Backyards for Birds. I'll be talking about transforming my tiny, urban yard from a sad, boring lawn to miniature nature preserve where I've seen 100+ species of birds. birdsgeorgia.app.neoncrm.com…

I wrote about Georgia's four extinct birds for today's Nature Is a Language post. We used to have parakeets! atlbirds.substack.com/p/gone…

Smiths fans might recognize the name of my new Substack that I launched yesterday. My second post is about the walk in the woods where I chose that name a few weeks ago. atlbirds.substack.com/p/natu… Be joyful / though you have considered all the facts. —Wendell Berry

Today is my last day at @PasteMagazine. That's a very strange thing to time, but I wrote about it here: atlbirds.substack.com/p/the-…

The first chapter of my ongoing first novel, The Spirit of Mars, is now live on Royal Road. I'd love it if you checked it out and offered any kind of feedback. royalroad.com/fiction/187930…

He's up to 8.4 million followers since I published this an hour ago. jezebel.com/cape-verde-keepe…