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Thank a lemming

10,000 Birds

Lemmings can have four or five litters a year of as many eight young. They actually make very good pets, becoming very tame quite quickly. The energy they expend will be sorely needed to get them through the winter and get them home to their breeding range up here.

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In Memoriam

10,000 Birds

She also thought it was perfectly reasonable to sleep in until 10:00 on a Saturday morning in May, especially after seeing me struggle through spring migration year after year, sleep-deprived, cranky, and sore-necked – not to mention being unreasonably miffed about whatever birds I may have missed. We didn’t always agree on everything.

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