Nature Done Wright

Rick Wright is the guest speaker at Friday's Fyke meeting. I am disppointed I can't attend, because I have heard nothing but rave reviews for Rick's talk.

He is a terrific speaker, a terrific birder, and no relation to Jim W. 🙂

Here's a description of his talk: 

Geronimo, the General, and the Hummingbird
Renowned bird writer and lecturer Rick Wright takes us back in time to when soldiers serving on the Southwestern
frontier in the late nineteenth century sought distraction from the heat and tedium
however they could.

In rough towns and rougher outposts, whisky, women, and cards
were favored pastimes, but on campaign, other pursuits had to break the boredom—
among them, birding.

Even General Crook was a birder, and his “capture” of Geronimo’s
band in 1883 is tied in surprising ways to the general’s pursuit of a particularly beautiful
hummingbird.