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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

10,000 Birds

Having said that, my sentimental journey started without a plan, more by accident, on an AGM of BirdLife Slovenia in Ljubljana in 2005. Right: Water Pipits landing on my car and sliding down the windscreen. The road was new, the only sign of the recent times were bullet holes in a few abandoned houses, but that was a rare sight.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

10,000 Birds

He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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