Awakening to the spirit and beauty of the northern Great Plains
Monday, August 21, 2017
Warblers passing through
Wood warbler migration is underway on the northern Plains, flushing birds from the forests to the north down to our urban forest here in Regina. August 20st was a good day for wood warblers in the back yard. They were ignoring me so I went in again and got my camera. I sat in a lawn chair and took these images with a Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi, with a 400 mm f/5.6 lens. In an hour and a half I had photos of six species. Here they are strung together in a short video (to get a larger view of the video be sure to click the Youtube button on the bottom right corner):
Watch for Islands of Grass, a book of essays on grassland people, creatures, and places by Trevor Herriot accompanying Branimir Gjetvaj's luminous photography. In better stores by Nov. 1, 2017.
Trevor's book, Towards a Prairie Atonement, published by the University of Regina Press in 2016, connects history and ecology in prairie landscapes with a story about the forced removal of a community of 250 Metis people in the late 1930s. Podcast interview about the book here.
Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds (HarperCollins 2009) was nominated for the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Non-fiction Award.
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