Word: herons
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...Birding, which ranks birders by species seen, prints erudite articles on how to distinguish different birds in the field and sets rules for the listing game. One such rule is that birds reaching North America through human assistance cannot be counted, touching off speculation on whether the Western Reef heron that drew hundreds of birders to Nantucket, Mass., in 1983 actually came over from Africa as a stowaway on a boat. The ABA checklist committee voted to accept the bird...
...remains to be settled is Eddie's charge of selective enforcement. The man to settle it is James Nunez, chief wildlife-and-fisheries enforcement officer for the area. Nunez operates out of the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge near Grand Chenier. The drive there is through marsh country, with egrets and heron everywhere and a duck-hunting dog in every man's yard. The canals are thick with lily pads and anglers, and the talk is of the upcoming opening of teal season. (During the Iranian crisis, it was locally claimed that ten Cajuns could have saved...
...dawn one day not long after the sale, a heron flipped a fish at the end of the spit where the mangroves are still growing. A skiff headed out to sea, a Labrador standing in the bow. The mast of the Adams' boat was moving: they were up. "We'll probably go anchor out, all alone somewhere. That's nice. It's a different way of life," he says. The night before, everyone had gathered for the last party, an "End of an Era" cocktail hour. They gave Steve Coe $301 they collected as a thank-you present, and Bobbi...
...proto types ranging from Leonardo to Titian, the work of the Fontainebleau mannerists, Quinten Massys, English court miniaturists, Darer and Mathi as Grünewald. It seems to range backward and forward in time, a web of discreet allusions that seldom rise to open quotation. Thus in drawing Cecily Heron, the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More, Holbein selected the pose of another woman with the same first name, Cecilia Gallerani, the model for Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine. If one could not deduce from his work that Holbein's was one of the best minds...
...Time to reach for that travel brochure for, where else, South Florida, America's favorite winter playground. Hmmm, let's see now. Here is a picture of palm trees swaying gently under a cottony blue sky while a family frolics in the foamy surf. Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning. There is a creamy stucco Palm Beach mansion, its red tile roof glinting fiercely in the sun and bougainvillea rioting, colorfully in the yard. And, of course, a couple of sunburned...