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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of September 2011?

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Alas, we’re also intimately acquainted with darker emotions; the lust in our hearts alone (for lifers and optics, naturally) exacts a heavy emotional toll.

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Winter Wanderland

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Alas, those sightings will be for another time as the weather had thrown a spanner in the works: half a meter of snow had closed off our intended destination. Coming down from the emotional high we noticed our grumbling stomachs: time to eat. What is 100% true is the flight number I took into Denver: 420.

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Looking for Lazarus

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I would have been very cross with him if this guy weren’t going to show me birds… Sensing my irrational emotions Antonio pointed out the São Tomé Ibis just behind us and all was forgiven. I left out the accident from my gripping yarn – no need to add “worry” to this list of emotions (omission etcetera, see above).

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