bird – Page 7

Another obligatory stop on the tourist trail is the boat ride by the Falls, in which you get drenched with water spraying off the waterfalls. Here, before the deluge, you can see a bird taking off from the water and the skips behind it.

Important Bird Area

The Niagara Falls area has been designated a “globally significant Important Bird Area,” an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria, developed identified by BirdLife International, as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

Bird, Falls

The bird gives some sense of the scale. The haze is caused by all the water misting into the air.

A View for the Birds

Last Slide

And the final slide from my father’s collection of ancient Kodachromes (see the full story, starting here) shows my Mother in Sacramento. Based on the difference in hairstyle and glasses from other pictures in the 1964 series, I’m going to guess this was taken several years earlier, probably in the late ’50s or even earlier in the ’60s. The bird, according to cousin Fern, was called Tina and said such things as “My name is Tina,” and “Dummy up Stewart,” to my Uncle Stewart. I think that style of glasses frame is back in.