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You Gotta Fight When You Think it’s the Right Thing to Do

10,000 Birds

Paving of the road across the Reva Pond started and was abandoned several months later: only the sidewalk was paved. Cover photo : White Hunter Black Heart, 1990. Having mobility issues, I bird by car only (or by canoe, but that is another story , of friendship and loss). Yet, the site is quite ruined.

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A “Thank You” is All You Need

10,000 Birds

Over a few obstacles, we follow the dirt track into an abandoned and overgrown claypit. Yet, Starlings cannot dig and are happy to use abandoned cavities. The other day, I came at 5.40 am with an ornithologist friend of mine by his Lada 4×4. The Touareg is parked, but no one is to be seen. Three hours later, the census is done.

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