Discover your ‘spark bird’ and keep your eyes trained skyward. Catching a glimpse can bring solace and joy.
A speck of orange in a treetop, a recent visitor from far away, offered a fleeting glimpse of a minor miracle. A tiny Baltimore oriole had flown north, whipped past borders closed to human travellers, oblivious to the novel coronavirus and racial tension erupting below, and settled alongside the Rideau Canal. That’s where I saw him, and moments later his female mate, while on a bike ride in May.
When he’s fly-fishing or out on a bike ride, Edmondson typically eschews binoculars. He prefers to bird by ear. Sometimes, standing on the edge of a field, he takes in his surroundings by sight and sound simultaneously—a superpower of the ornithological domain. “You’re looking at an indigo bunting in the tree,” he says, “but you’re hearing a savannah sparrow singing behind you in the fields.”
, a book that crystallized his mission to “create a set of ‘outdoor role models’ for the African-American community.” In his senior year of high school, Dudley and some classmates fundraised for a birding trip to south Texas. After enough Frisbee and candy sales, the small group packed themselves into a Toyota Tercel and drove from Ohio to a whole different world along the Rio Grande River, a dustier climate than anything he’d ever seen, and birds he’d never spotted back home. There was no turning back. Edmondson was a birder.
“When they do first arrive, they’re very sluggish. Their song is a little quieter. They’re not as noisy,” he says. But every year, the fiery little flyers are just the beginning. Orioles are a harbinger of indigo buntings, which navigate by the stars; hummingbirds, which fly alone; and purple martins, which eat and drink exclusively during flight. “It opens the floodgates,” says Shanahan.
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