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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of February 2015?

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So much for going out like a lamb! Every weekend deserves at least a little excitement, but I’m finding it difficult to get too worked up about another ice-rimed February weekend. At least this miserable (YMMV) month is coming to an end.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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According to the latest research data, the total Brown Bear population in Greece is 475 to 500 and here in the Pindos range there are 350 to 400 animals (Pilidis, 2015, in pub.). The cuisine was magnificent, especially lamb. Also, trekking poles proved useful.

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The Joy of One-eyed Birding

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Lamb, who surveyed the birds of western Mexico from 1932-1955, and whose lists have been posted on eBird in recent years. It was July of 2015, and I had been looking for a way to get as low and as high as possible within my one-hour-birding radius. All of which makes me a true one-eyed king. (It 1st Sinaloa Martin for Michoacán.

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