Born Naked (2013)
“On Saturdays or Sundays (sometimes both) I trudged resolutely off into the countryside to look for birds. I would be gone almost every day during longer holiday periods. There were lapses, as when I was confined to bed by a bad bout of flu or when a raging blizzard shut me up at home. Otherwise I went on my self-appointed rounds with a degree of dedication which surely made me brother to the legendary postman.
Between September 22 and March 22 I made thirty-four bird hikes covering more tha...n three hundred miles, much of that distance across the winter prairies in sub-zero weather. On January 28 I hiked all day at a temperature of –25°. I did the same at –45° on February 8, and –40° on February 21 and 23. This was cold stuff, but not cold enough to chill a passion which, in my sere and yellow years, seems almost incomprehensible.
Why did I do it? Did I really believe I was gathering priceless scientific lore about Saskatchewan birds?MoreLess
Between September 22 and March 22 I made thirty-four bird hikes covering more tha...n three hundred miles, much of that distance across the winter prairies in sub-zero weather. On January 28 I hiked all day at a temperature of –25°. I did the same at –45° on February 8, and –40° on February 21 and 23. This was cold stuff, but not cold enough to chill a passion which, in my sere and yellow years, seems almost incomprehensible.
Why did I do it? Did I really believe I was gathering priceless scientific lore about Saskatchewan birds?MoreLess
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