What interests me is when I get migrants from somewhere BFE in my postage stamp of land here on the Westside.

I’ve had winter wrens, hermit thrushes, orange-crowned warblers, ruby-crowned kinglets and Lincoln’s sparrows all down from the Canuck Northwoods. Even had a Harris’ sparrow which breeds only in a limited range bordering the Canadian tundra.

The chimney swifts which are gonna be around all summer are currently roosting in hollow trees in the rain forests of Eastern Peru in the foothills of the Andes Mountains.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744