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Marlgu Billabong at the end of the dry season

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Last month we decided to head north to go camping and birding and top up the 2018 Year List. The closest town to Marlgu Billabong is Wyndham and they had 22mm of rain on April 7th 2018 and there had been no rain since then when we visited on November 10th. Marlgu Billabong looking right from the shelter.

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7 State Parks for Fall Colors and Birding

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From now through the first week of November (2018) autumn leaves are peaking along the ridges and valleys of the Appalachians. There are four scenic overlooks, a woodpecker viewing area, a migratory duck pond, and access to The Appalachian Trail. Leaves and birds in the Appalachian Mountains. North Bend State Park, West Virginia.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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The eggs are Peregrine Falcon eggs, stolen from aeries in Wales, though Lendrum keeps insisting they’re duck eggs. The same weakness is found in The Feather Thief (2018), a book similarly about an obsessive thief with flexible boundaries of right and wrong. Back to Lendrum–McWilliam interviews him.

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