Honing your birding ear can also reveal hidden details in the field. For instance, you’ll know to look for raptors when you hear songbirds whistle in alarm. With a little practice, you can begin decoding all those songs and calls, which will in turn give you remarkable insights into the species around you. It's loud, it's raucous, and for the untrained ear, it's often incoherent. Spring’s here, and there’s a birdy party raging outdoors. To catch up, check out part 1, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, and part 8. In part 2, Bird and Moon creator Rosemary Mosco takes you through the various sounds you hear and what they mean to birds (and to birders).
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Follow along with our birding-by-ear series to learn how to better ID birds through their vocalizations. The sheer volume of songs and calls can often feel overwhelming for birders, but these sounds offer both an opportunity and a challenge. That annoying blurghole sometimes has to take a swift kick in the pants from the solver in me who adores innovative, audacious ideas, especially those that take advantage of the NYT Sunday Magazine's huge advantage of color printing.Editor’s Note: There's a lot to look forward to in spring, including the welcomed hullabaloo of birdsong. Along with much stronger execution, of course.Īll those qualms are from the technician in me, though. I'm not sure that's possible to do with a perfect set of lips, given the stringent constraint of placing eight crossing themers in fixed places, but even a rough shape of lips would have given this some Puzzle of the Year consideration. I also wish RUBY LIPS had formed the shape of lips. There are so many partials, abbreviations, tough foreign words, prefixes - everything that editors call out to avoid on their specs sheets. I wish he'd had more time to push her to revise a few more times. It's fantastic that Joel helped Lisa along - Sunday 140-word puzzles are challenging to create. RUBY LIPS doesn't feel like a jump-out-of-your-chair-and-praise-the-heavens final answer, but it's solid enough and appropriate for Valentine's Day.įive years ago, I would have never picked this as a POW! There would have been way too many execution flaws that would have disqualified it many times over. Not only that, but the letters tacked on to RED change, spelling out a meta answer. Kudos also to the editorial team for finding some excellent cluing opportunities I missed.
I enjoyed the editorial process with Joel Fagliano, who gave me permission to abandon the symmetry and helped guide me, with patience and good humor, to this better final version. That early version had symmetrical placement of the red squares, at the cost of some real stretches among the theme words and fill. I came up with the theme for today's puzzle back in the 00's. as one of the first out transgender state legislators in U.S. Currently, I'm self-employed as an author, with two recently-published novels for young readers featuring lots of LGBTQ+ content without that being the preachy point. Here's my bio top-line, since I'm effectively new: I had a 30-year career in non-commercial radio.
I got away from constructing, but I recently rediscovered how much I love it, and I am delighted to find that a whole crossword community has grown up in my absence, with blogs and Facebook groups, and more. In those days, that meant mailing Will a manila envelope and getting a letter back, and then running out on publication mornings to buy a paper to keep. What a thrill to be back in the Times, especially with my first Sunday grid! I had five daily puzzles published between 20.
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