: About Me

Eric Halloran is an avid fly-fisherman, reader, and technology maven. He is also a guerilla commuter (200 miles per day). He lives in Western Massachusetts.

My passion is ...

fly-fishing

I know too much about ...

what I don't know.

My parents always told me ...

read, read, read.

My childhood ambition ...

become an archaeologist.

My favorite memory ...

Good times with friends.

Why I write ...

I enjoy immersing myself in a topic that is important to me.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Listening to my daughter, Kelly Halloran.

My first job ...

Fast food (Burger King)

My best moment ...

Happens all the time.

My inspiration ...

Pete Huttlinger's music

Pets & Animals > Birds Bird facts: Cooper's hawk

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A friend and I stopped one foggy New England morning to investigate a cacophony of bird noise emanating from some sparse cover along a country road.  About a hundred robins clustered tightly in a small section of scrub brush intertwined with bittersweet vines.  I was puzzling how we could approach within a few yards without flushing the entire flock, when my gaze was attracted by a flash of gray midair to my right, accompanied by a loud 'whack' and explosion of feathers.  I froze: Staring up at me from the ground not more than twenty feet away, with intense red eyes, gray wi...

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