While at the Charlie Elliot Wildlife Center this morning (see the previous posting), someone rather famous among the birding community showed up, a quietly impressive gentleman: Charlie Seabrook, well-known columnist for the Atlantic Journal Constitution. Charlie is the national environmental reporter, the man behind the popular "Wild Georgia" column. His newspaper stories about Georgia's mining industry won the Investigative Reporters and Editors "Best Story of the Year aware in 1994. In 2001 the State of Georgia gave him the R. L. "Rock" Howard Award, its highest conservation prize. Just to stand next to this great man and have him put his arm on my shoulder was a real sign of his marvelous generosity. Let's hope Georgia has many more like Charlie!
If you'd like to read one of his latest columns, visit "Got spring fever? Try a nature walk," a good sampling of the kind of writing Charlie does so well.
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