By Dan Hicks

Op-Ed Commentary

Our memorable year of 2020 AD concluded with some media limelight shone upon the Nats.

December 31’s 8 a.m. 107.5 FM news featured excerpts of morning show host Dennis Walker’s interview with Dianne Cooper about the Audubon Christmas Bird Counts and in closing, Dennis referenced the Rocky Mountain Naturalists’ website.

The full six-minute interview is posted on Dennis’s own “My Community Now” section of 107.5 FM’s website.

Dianne is hardly alone in speaking publicly for the Nats. Daryl Calder’s December 16 “Christmas Bird Counts Coming Soon” article is posted on e-KNOW.

The one upvote is my own, leaving me bewildered as to where the avid RMN birders might be hiding (but only the birdies would know).

Well done Dianne & Daryl!

Were the Nats predisposed to audio archiving their history, their designated “archivist” would archive Dianne’s interview as an MP3 file – safely stored for posterity within the hallowed RMN master archives.

Wishing everyone a joyous contagion-free 2021!

Be like a solar jar light to your fellow man and pray for a safer, happier world where bats, however delectable, are no longer on anyone’s menu (you tell em Gerry!).

My golden ginkgo tree project percolates quietly along, with nouveau hope arising beyond Cranbrook itself (if that’s imaginable).

Lead image: The pervasive gloom of Cranbrook’s rainy winter solstice is illuminated by the icy blue glow of a solitary sylvan solar jar. Dan Hicks photo

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