The Big Yard: Birdwatching in a Time of Quarantine
Or: The Evolution of a Lister
Day 96 of the Quarantine (June 17, 2020)
On the first official day of the monsoon season (June 15), a bolt of lightning nearly knocked me off my ladder while clearing the gutters. Then the rain came, gray sheets of it undulating across the canyon and pounding against our metal roof. The well b…