Last year’s Red Kite photo. I am still getting out and about to see birds, but I don’t have the capacity to photograph, write about or paint them right now.

I hope that in the coming weeks my best birding buddy (or ‘Dad’, as I usually call him) is feeling well enough to join me again. Fortunately I didn’t join Substack till last spring, so I have a couple of month’s supply of seasonally appropriate photos I haven’t shared here before, at least.