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Second Chances

4 The Love Of Animals

Second Chances A battered pick-up truck rattles up to the curb of a neglected house. The vacant property’s lawn is infused with crab-grass, clover and dandelions. Wispy white puffs of dandelion tufts drift above the yard resembling tiny wayward ghosts. … Continue reading → The post Second Chances appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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You Think You Know Hummingbirds, But You Have No Idea

10,000 Birds

It’s coming right for us! Ruby-throated Hummingbird photographed by Corey. If you’ve ever watched hummingbirds zip through a garden or tropical forest, you know what tiny miracles they are. So lightweight you could mail a few of them with just one postage stamp, so crazy-metabolic they have to eat their own body weight every day, so seemingly fancy free.

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Keeping up with the times

10,000 Birds

When I was 12 or 13, I was given a hand-me-down camera, and started taking pictures, It was at this point, or at least very close to it, that I started pointing camera at birds. To this day, there is still that one early photo, a Forrester’s tern, caught beautifully in flight, every feather in amazing detail, that is the basis for my start. Birds, and my photography have been linked now for nearly 50 years, and I am just starting to feel like I am on to something.

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