Pause to Breathe

Sunrise, May 16, 2026 - part sun and lots of clouds describes this week well.Hello friends! It’s a holiday weekend and today is my birthday, so I’m taking a little writing break and trying to catch up on some of the things I didn’t get done while walking all those extra hours the last few weeks. But don’t worry, there are plenty of photos! It’s a good reminder to pause and take a deep breath more often.Yellow warbler has the right idea for a holiday weekend.Also, in honor of my birthday, paid subscriptions to this newsletter are on sale this week. As a little incentive, I am one subscriber away from hitting 100 concurrent subscribers. I’ve been close to 100 many times, but never quite gotten there. If we get there this week, I will create an mp3 download of bird song for every reader of this newsletter. I appreciate every one of you!Subscribe nowI appreciate all the birds AND it’s fun to see birds I rarely see, like this chestnut-sided warbler. They were plentiful this spring!On to…