Speaking of Nature: Celebrating 28 years of Speaking of Nature: A new resolution for the future of my bird-watching

Speaking of Nature: Celebrating 28 years of Speaking of Nature: A new resolution for the future of my bird-watching

Last Saturday was a bit of a milestone for me. It might easily have come and gone without me realizing it, but thanks to my obsessive record keeping I happened to see a notation in the pages of my 2025 field diary and avoided an embarrassing oversight. Last Saturday marked the 28th anniversary of Speaking of Nature, an event that I don’t think I could have ever imagined back in 1997 when I sent in my first column.