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I can’t believe it. It looks like a Scott’s Oriole has been sighted in Duluth, MN, just three hours from my home. What’s unusual about that is that a Scott’s Oriole is a bird native to the southwest. What’s even odder (is that an oxymoron?) is that my Bob White characters see a Scott’s Oriole in my most recent release, Falcon Finale, when they go to Arizona. And now they could have stayed home and seen one right here in Minnesota!

This has happened to me before with these books: bird events that echo my book events. For the first book, it was an influx of Boreal Owls (normally very hard to find) in northern Minnesota the winter after the book The Boreal Owl Murder debuted in September 2008… ...more...

Last month, I made a quick tour of London, Derry and Dublin with my husband and daughter, and while in London, we toured the British Museum.

It’s a new month and I’ve got two big launches: Luce’s blog, titled “Me, Bobby, and the birds” is now up at www.cooksleepbird.blogspot.com and the fourth book in the Bob White Birder Murder Mystery series is on the press and expected to be shipping in a few more days.