Author: Mark

I’ve spent much of the last four days in the Black Hills of Dakota in Western South Dakota.  Some of it in rain, some with a flat tyre, but even so I can see why Doris Day wanted to go back.  Maybe she hadn’t quite seen all the region’s birds either. But the bird list…

Yesterday I woke fairly early and the sun was shining so I wrote a blog about black birds by the side of the road.  It was too early to get the tire fixed. Here is some very valuable information for anyone who gets a flat tire in Custer, SD on the Sunday before the holiday of…

I have spent a lot of time in the car and, as a result, see lots of roadside birds.  Many of them are black. Starlings are still with me – I have seen starlings every day of my trip and that includes Starlings hopping round near bison. Larger than a Starling but similarly iridescent when seen really well,…

Today I drove around the southern Black Hills of Dakota in the rain.  I saw a few Bison, I saw some birds and I had a nice day. I also learned what I did, really, already know, that I really should check where the jack, wheelbrace, spare tire etc are just in case I get a flat after…

Yesterday I wrote about Wounded Knee and today I bought Roger L. di Silvestro’s ‘In the Shadow of Wounded Knee’ which I will read properly but share these points from his book.   The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is almost the size of Connecticut and is home to 40,000 people whose median annual income is…