I had just gotten back from Botswana, where I was visiting baby elephants and becoming an avid twitcher after discovering my spark bird (the crested barbet), when I received an email from Dallas artist Cynthia Mulcahy.
“Flocks of roseate spoonbills have been hanging out in the wetlands near the Margaret Hunt Bridge every day over the last week that I have visited,” Cynthia wrote. “This is a rare sighting of large migratory tropical wading birds with downtown Dallas as the backdrop. As a conceptual artist, I am, admittedly, always trying to spread the word about flora and fauna in Dallas and this is such a wonderful story of these magnificent wading birds that have been hanging out on the islands in the wetlands with the Hilton Anatole and Parkland Hospital as backdrop. You can easily see them by walking, biking or driving to the bridge and wandering north a few hundred yards along the wetlands. It’s quite a vision.”…