Horticulturalist, journalist and scholar Kendra Hamilton’s article on J. Drew Lanham of Edgefield, South Carolina.

J. Drew Lanham is the Alumni Distinguished Professor of wildlife ecology at Clemson University.  Also a creative writer, ornithologist, and a self-described "hunter-conservationist,”  Lanham says:

“I love watching all wild things but birds capture my heart. I envy their flighted freedom and uninhibited expression through song. I hunt autumn’s changing and spring’s regaining to meter my life’s winding in the web. I honor those whitetail and wild turkey that infrequently fall by my design as sustenance for body, mind and spirit.” 

(from Lanham’s website https://jdlanham.wixsite.com/blackbirder)