[The following is a hint of what you’ll find next year in my new work, a book of unusual bird illustrations and commentary. The art is mine and so is the story.] A man holding a heavy sack entered the forest. He trudged down a beaten path until he came to a grove of trees. A Blue-Crested Palaver and a sparrow were spying on him from separate branches of a twisted and gnarled beech tree. Neither knew that the other had been following the man. Yawning, the man sat cross-legged beneath the beech and loosened the ties of his sack. … Continue reading The Blue-Crested Palaver and A Curiosity’s Sparrow