“To him who seeks in the woods and mountains only those things obtainable from travel or golf, the present situation is tolerable. But to him who seeks something more, recreation has become a self-destructive process of seeking but never quite finding, a major frustration of mechanized society.”
-Aldo Leopold-
“Chestnut-sided Warbler”
Technical details: Canon EOS 7D camera, EF400mm f/5.6L USM lens, ISO 640, f/5.6, 1/1000 sec
A Thousand Acres of Silphiums 
Oh, my. I so get that. I don’t want to be numbered among the recreators, but too often leave feeling like one.
I DO have Eliot Porter’s “Vanishing Songbirds,” and this image so puts me in mind of it. I’ll bring it along next time.