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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. 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.

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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! Here is one of those Downy Woodpeckers. Our next stop was another mutually agreed upon stop, Albuquerque New Mexico.