You may have heard of the Central Park birder, who got threatened by a woman
when he asked her to put her dog on leash.
I just listened to a free podcast about another African-American birder and how
he got into birding. Very interesting! Link below:
https://thisislovepodcast.com/episode-22-prairie-warbler/
When Drew Lanham was a child, he used to lie down in a field and play dead,
just so he could get a glimpse of vultures flying over him. He made binoculars
out of toilet paper rolls, and wings out of cardboard. He loved birds. But when
he went to college, he says “I was trying to live up to the expectations of
others who said, ‘you’re a black kid who’s good at math and science.’” So he
studied engineering, and was miserable. And then, one day he heard the call of
a Prairie Warbler.
Drew Lanham’s book is The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair
with Nature
