10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I knew for sure I hadn’t seen a Great Blue yet this year, but the heron on the can of this week’s beer – Universale Pale Ale by Fremont Brewing of Seattle, Washington – reminded me just how long it’s been. Fremont Brewing is located in Fremont, a neighborhood of Seattle and formerly an independent city.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Tags: pit bull breed ban seattle.

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Critter News

APRIL 27, 2009

Lilly Tomlin is in Seattle and spoke out about the conditions of elephants at the Woodland Park Zoo on behalf of the Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN). Addressing supporters and the media at the Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Center, Tomlin said elephants in zoos across the country are suffering in confinement.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2011

A crow in Seattle’s Myrtle Edwards Park that might be an American Crow. This is why you can not count a Northwestern Crow in Seattle. A young crow in Seattle’s Volunteer Park. How sure am I? Not at all. It didn’t sound like an eastern American Crow but it wasn’t supposed to. According to Chris C.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Over the last weekend, my wife and I made a whirl-wind trip from Mexico, up to the Pacific Northwest, the Seattle area, where we stayed with the in-laws. They have a nice large back yard, complete with a variety of bird feeders, and a fence that backs right up to a Green Belt.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Lastly, kudos to the Seattle Audubon Society for stepping up when thieves threatened to ruin a teenager with cancer’s dream birding trip. In related news, a rule forbidding nighttime high school football games during the nesting season for Newell’s Shearwaters has some Hawaiians throwing a challenge flag.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

Harbor seal in Puget Sound, Seattle. Here’s what a bird sees just before it strikes a window, without the velocity and certain injury. Oiled Western Gull after the Cosco Busan oil spill. Raccoon kits where they should be. Black-crowned Night Heron fallen to a parking lot, unable to be re-nested.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2015

Finally, after much tribulation, you land in Seattle. The next day, you and your hosts sally forth from Seattle to camp up in the Methow Valley. The first half appears to have been torn away, and the second half was scorched and smelled faintly of gasoline. I present what I could recover in the interests of literary history. ~~~~~~~.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2016

Thru the course of time, travel, and a lot of different occupations, he ended up living in Seattle, and met a girl with a sailboat. So far they have sailed north from Seattle, up thru British Columbia, Canada and down the West Coast of the US to settle (for now) in La Paz, Mexico.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2017

This Great Blue Heron was found up near Seattle this winter, and I was as cold as this birds looks to be! This Song Sparrow was in the Seattle area last winter, and got so nicely framed with the local foliage. I will keep the stories short, and hope that you enjoy my mid-year favorites as I did taking them.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

For the second year in a row, the Seattle Seahawks will represent the NFC, the Pacific Northwest, and bird lovers everywhere in pursuit of the NFL championship. Get excited, bird lovers… a team with an avian appellation is headed to the Super Bowl! Congrats, bone breakers!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2018

We arrived in Seattle 6 days ago, at 12:30 in the morning, after being on the road, in one form or another since February 1st. Circumstances have been such, that the bulk of my visits to Nisqually, have been in the winter, so the refuge, in the peak of a Seattle Summer, is a much different place. Back in the US of A!

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Critter News

APRIL 22, 2010

From the Seattle Times. A gray whale that died after stranding on a West Seattle beach had a large amount of trash in its stomach, ranging from a pair of sweatpants to a golf ball, said biologists who examined the animal. Tags: seattle whale marine life pollution. Starvation was not considered a major contributor to its death.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

But at last the Seattle Seahawks, named for a bird we all know and love , have won the championship and further advanced the cause of avian inspiration for athletes! Those of you who follow such things should be pleased to learn that this weekend was quite auspicious for sports teams named for birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2019

When word of this bird’s discovery came, I was up in Seattle for a Saturday wedding. I am pretty sure that this bird’s presence really has nothing to do with the hurricane, just a matter of coincidental timing. The bird was discovered hanging out right next to the Visitors Center for the refuge.

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Critter News

AUGUST 30, 2011

Ringling Brothers is coming to Kent, WA, and I'm happy to know the Northwest Animal Rights Network will be protesting (we live in nearby Seattle by the way.).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Northern crested caracara, below, was photographed in Skycomish, Washington, 45 miles east of Seattle, in 2014.) As to the caracara’s plans for the future: they have been seen, in the last twenty years, in Maine, Montana, and Washington State. (The With abundant roadkill (1.3

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Now that we have returned to our adopted home of La Paz, Mexico, our bones are starting to thaw out from the trip to chilly Seattle. While I was in the Seattle area, there were lots of Spotted Towhees , and here in the Mexican desert there were California Towhees. Here is one of the surprising Wilson’s Warblers.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Excerpted from the Seattle P-I. A Seattle law firm is taking on dairies, claiming that a price-fixing scheme has consumers paying too much for milk. The group turned to Seattle attorney Steve Berman, who filed the suit claiming more than half a million U.S. If the dairy companies were doing this, well, that's cold!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2021

In his Preface, McMullan warns the reader that the book is not written in chronological order and he’s not kidding: the narrative goes from Thailand to Seattle, from Senegal to the Everglades, without segue or even much of a breath. He probably should do.

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Critter News

JULY 24, 2009

Right in my own home of Seattle. Tags: sea gulls seattle animal cruelty marine life. Most rednecks wouldn't be so cruel or so stupid. I hope the allegations turns out to be false.

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Critter News

JULY 18, 2011

An article in today's Seattle Times about Woodland Park Zoo's attempts over the last 20 years to breed elephants. Very controversial with organizations such as In Defense of Animals, PETA and the Northwest Animal Rights Network. They say it's cruel. The zoo claims it's to preserve the species.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Space Needle against the Seattle sky! Corey will be in the Albany area birding up his old haunts. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend !

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Critter News

MAY 12, 2009

I live in Seattle where Woodland Park Zoo is located. Tags: conservation seattle woodland park zoo elephants endangered species. I just don't know what to think. On the one hand, Woodland Park is very proud of its elephant conservation program and its elephant residents. I'm definitely open to feedback.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

Corey took this shot from the Seattle waterfront a. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! Enjoy beautiful skies over brilliant bodies of water.

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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2009

This article was actually on the first page of the soon-to-be-exclusively online Seattle PI. Tags: chained dogs seattle legislation us. While I know that sometimes people have little choice when it comes to keeping their animals outdoors, you can still tell when the animal is cared for. And he is simply one of many.

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Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2011

They have them here in Seattle. Can crashes into carriage. Just so inhumane and dangerous. I just hate them, although it sounds like NYC is particularly bad.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

This wonderful piece of birding real estate can be found 8 miles east of Olympia, and an hour’s drive south of Seattle Washington, right along the I-5 corridor. Unfortunately, while I was still living in the Seattle area, I had discovered the Nisqually Refuge to late, just weeks prior to setting sail south.

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Critter News

JANUARY 15, 2010

From the Seattle P-I: A Japanese psychiatrist with a home in Seattle is facing poaching and gun-possession charges following allegations that he poached several black bears and tried to smuggle gallbladders back to Japan. So, it's not just rednecks in Washington State who are doing this.

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Critter News

JULY 31, 2009

From the Seattle P-I (yep, the online newspaper!). Tags: seattle navy marine life whales pacific northwest. The Navy has been able to get away with using it for "national security" reasons. But there may be rules on their way to help mitigate the damage, at least in the Pacific Northwest.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2009

This story comes out of Gold Bar in Snohomish County, north of Seattle (where we latte-sucking liberals live.) Tags: seattle puppy mills. Adult dogs and puppies were found living in crates and small pens filled with large accumulations of feces and heavily soiled shavings, said Vicki Lubrin of Snohomish County Animal Control Services.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The one found in West Seattle was a California sea lion, protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Investigators say they do not know who is responsible. KING says one of the Nisqually casualties was a Steller sea lion, protected under the Endangered Species Act.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

Corey, on the other hand, will surely be too busy sorting through souvenirs and photos from Seattle to get out this weekend. Upstate New York hosts an epic annual event, so I might joust (see what I did there?) give it a whirl. Knowing him, though, you may want to keep an eye out for him anywhere in NYC a rare bird might turn up.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2011

Corey is beseiging the birds of Seattle as we speak, and I’m enjoying the sight of Chimney Swifts swinging and swooping over the monuments and museums of Washington D.C. Here at 10,000 Birds, we believe in living the first week of August like it was our last. How about you?

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Rabbit Meadows is a rescue group out of Seattle. We’ve subsequently rescued feral rabbit populations from Rocky Reach Dam in Wenatchee, Seattle’s Woodland Park, and the Aqua Barn of Kent, insuring each rabbit a safe haven to live out the rest of their life at Rabbit meadows without threat of harm.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2019

So, with one week of the season remaining, let’s return the same brewery with whom we heralded the very first signs of spring back in the middle of February, with another beer from Fremont Brewing Company of Seattle, Washington.

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