Bird From Home
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided wildlife photographers with the opportunity to view nature through a new lens—one aimed intensively at their own homes. We asked three professionals across the country to document the birdlife around them during their stay-at-home orders. For each, creating intimate portraits of their animal neighbors became more than a simple assignment: It spurred a new appreciation for, and deeper understanding of, the world right outside their door. —The Editors MORGAN HEIM My email used to be the first thing I checked in the morning. Now it’s my window. My house in Astoria, Oregon, has become a multi-tiered blind through which to spy on my avian neighbors. I’ve developed strategies for opening windows, created little viewing stations, and refined the exact way to tiptoe up to the window when I…