10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

I have to admit that I feel like Duck Dynasty is a tremendous missed opportunity. With Dallas and Dark Shadows getting reboots, and whatever this is existing, why shouldn’t one of our seemingly infinite cable channels take a flyer on a soapy show featuring the lives and loves of the Anatidae? I forgot to set my TiVo!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

I might have to add the Dallas airport staff to the list of things Buffon was right about. Late summer 2023 the lakes and ponds had been empty, presumably because the ducks and geese were moulting. Empty no more, the ponds were now brimming with ducks of all creeds and persuasions – it was spectacular.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2019

I recently traveled to Texas and made a trip to Hagerman NWR (an “Honorable Mention”), which is north of Dallas. There were already many Snow Geese (along with some Ross’s Geese) as well as countless ducks, primarily Northern Pintail. Since then, I’ve had a long-term goal of visiting the ones I have never visited. (I

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