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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

Hard to imagine nowadays, this majestic mountain setting was a major communist guerilla stronghold in the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) and the region is scarred by the events and the memories of them. Like many others, this village was totally abandoned and only recently repopulated, with a current population of only 18 people.

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Little Big Year – Week 35: Route 66, Tucumcari and The Albuquerque area

10,000 Birds

The birds were right next to an old abandoned farm house, and seemed quite happy to have their photo taken, up to a point, but then like the wind, they were gone, out thru the flat desert areas of New Mexico! I counted about 600 of them, along with a few Red-wing Blackbirds and about 50-75 Yellow-headed Blackbirds.