Monday, August 2, 2010

ghost birds: Hunter's Bend





Searching Hunter’s Bend:

“In the afternoon, we walked over to Blue Lake,” wrote Tanner. “The cutover country is the darndest place to get thru, tree-tops in every direction, catroads [meandering trails] winding around, every depression full of water, and where a cat-road crossed water was a boggy trough.”

"Walking through this section was a slow, laborious trek. If an ivory-bill flew over, it would be nearly impossible to follow."



Excerpt from Ghost Birds to be published this month. For more information go to:

Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Quest for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1935-1941 Cover illustration by the author.



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