Birding Gallery

This section features member submissions of photos, poems, stories, etc. Please email all submissions to Gail Goldberger

Stories

THE TREE OF HEAVEN

By Gail Goldberger - The fall of 1983 is a fall I will never forget.  A long siege of what felt like the flu felled me from August into September.  After five weeks of feeling sick, of returning to work again and again only to end up back home in bed, I insisted that my health maintenance organization give me blood tests to determine if I had more than the flu.

BIRD KILL/BIRD RESCUE

By Gail Goldberger - Every spring in California I would make a trip to Audubon Canyon Ranch, north of San Francisco in Marin County.  The Ranch, or rookery, was on Bolinas Lagoon, an inlet to the sea, and every spring, great blue herons and great egrets found their way here to mate and raise their young.

Photos

Kanae Hirabayashi - This Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) is not quite scarlet but rather Orange Tanager. Taken (5/11/04) morning at Montrose. View Image