A birder discovers butterflies
Birding has long been a passion of mine. Birds lured me into woods at a young age, and I never looked back. I began keeping lists of the birds I had seen, and family vacations always meant new potential species and experiences: Burrowing Owls and Roseate Spoonbills in Florida, Black Guillemots and Atlantic Puffins in Maine.
Last summer, I worked at a county park in New Jersey with one of my best friends, Ben. We had both been heavily interested in birding since we were kids, and when we met in college, birds were one of the main
