Residents of the Bay State will understand that there is a certain responsibility for each of us to make a pilgrimage to the Cape and Islands on a somewhat frequent basis. My schedule for these visits is approximately every two years and I’ve done a.
Outdoors section
Published: 4/28/2021 9:46:49 AM
One of the highlights of my Monday mornings is reading the “Outdoors” section of the Recorder. I look forward to Bill Danielson’s varied and informative columns and wonderful photographs, and Andy Castillo’s introspective, philosophical notes.
The nature photographs by neighbors are also fun, especially when such rare visitors as sandhill cranes are captured. However, there are sometimes misidentifications of birds in the photos; in the past few weeks for instance a red-bellied woodpecker was wrongly identified as a northern flicker, and this morning, a white-throated sparrow was incorrectly said to be a savannah sparrow.
Birds and nature
Published: 1/15/2021 6:46:37 AM
Similar letters have been sent in by others fairly recently but sometimes a good message bears repeating.
Thank you, thank you, Recorder, for continuing to print Bill Danielson’s wonderful column about birds and nature. His deep knowledge, his delight in the natural world, especially those birds, the photos (oh, those cardinals!) and his excellent writing make for truly wonderful and uplifting reading.
And thank you, thank you, Recorder, for nurturing the work of Andy Castillo. We have been watching him grow from a fill-in writer to a writer with profound messages and compelling style. His column today (Jan. 11) was one of the best pieces I have ever read in the paper.