It’s a pure form of self-betterment that I’m sure some people don’t see as self-betterment at all, rather as a waste of your mental faculties.These are probably the best known and most frequently encountered wood warblers. You have to do the work, have to want to do that work, to get the result that you want. The only person who benefits from increasing your knowledge of warblers-and just because I’m writing this doesn’t mean my knowledge can’t be increased-is you, yourself. Who cares what kind of warbler is in that shrub? Who cares what’s rare and what isn’t? I’m sure a lot of it seems pointless to somebody with no interest in birds. It’s a challenging task that you and you alone can make yourself better at. The drive to do it has to come from within-which is another element that draws me to it. Getting better at birding in general also isn’t a mandatory use of your time. It’s not easy to know one from the other it requires that you take it upon yourself to learn, to study field guides, to know the factual details of how a bird spends its days. Warblers embody one of the elements of birding I find so worthwhile. Despite how much time I’ve spent poring over its pages, I still usually come away either feeling just as unconfident as when I started-it makes clear how much there is to know, that you didn’t even realize you didn’t know-or telling myself: Good luck employing whatever knowledge you just fleetingly obtained when you’re out in the woods trying to identify warblers, or in a field, or on a boardwalk by an estuary, or by a body of water, or in that spot where you saw a Blackburnian three years ago. For my birthday a few years ago, she gifted me a hefty tome: Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle’s The Warbler Guide. Inspired by this fictional character, it’s not unheard of for me to play bird calls through my headphones as I make breakfast, or through speakers as I shower.īryn and I play them and quiz each other. Brad, Jack Black’s character in The Big Year, who is incredibly fluent with bird calls, was onto something. Calls have helped my confidence in saying what kind of warbler a bird is. I feel best about identifying a warbler when it’s an adult male-an orange-throated Blackburnian, a Cape May Warbler with its cheek coloring-though have successfully identified female and immature birds too. Though I don’t have qualms with him, I understand there are myriad reasons why people do. That captures a large part of Roosevelt’s appeal. All told, Roosevelt’s legacy was almost half the landmass Thomas Jefferson had acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.”
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Teddy Roosevelt left some great lessons on how to be, but also, to circle back to Brinkley, “helped set aside for posterity (or for “the people unborn” as he put it) a legacy of over 234 million acres, almost the size of the Atlantic coast states from Maine to Florida (or equal to one out of every ten acres in the United States, including Alaska). Gessner writes, too, in Soaring with Fidel : Roosevelt’s “life told a story whose moral was that it was okay to brag and even smash and crash sometimes, and occasionally to speak in sentences that ended in exclamation points.” To get to why I started writing about hats in the first place: One of the hats I proudly wear has a depiction of Roosevelt’s face on it. There’s a faded commemorative trucker from when I registered for a fishing tournament years ago. Another is emblazoned with the logo of a conservation nonprofit Bryn worked for, another’s emblazoned with the logo of the organization we worked for when we met. There is a chance I own too many baseball caps, but there are hats I proudly wear. Roosevelt, in my book, is held in high regard. I’ve never shot a warbler, never will, wouldn’t dream of it-but understand why Roosevelt and Audubon did.
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