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Fear Of The Dark

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And a few years later, I read of her experience birding with me at one of the larger birding web sites and learned that E. I though her to be a silent type, perhaps tired of flying and jet lag, but it never ever occurred to me that my female guest may be worried when passing closed and abandoned communist era factories. I was nervous.

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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

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Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. It’s not clear from the book’s ending, but it sounds like she abandoned her nascent apprenticeship because of her traveling schedule, her marriage, and her own chickens who would certainly be killed if she kept a hawk.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of May 2015)

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He yelled a relatively unintelligible explanation as he ran to the car, abandoning his family, and sped to Jamaica Bay where he parked and ran out to the breach of the West Pond where he relied upon the kindness of other birders, who let him use their scopes while he got his breath back. Instead, it antagonizes us with petty worries.

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And So It Begins

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and Canada, it had apparently discovered an abandoned nest, on which it was clearly showing nesting behavior. He has lots of experience with its close relative in Morelia, the endemic Spotted Wren. So, as they say here in Mexico, we got out of bed on the right side! Was it practicing?

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Flock to Marion

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I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. Salvin’s Prion. Our Flock to Marion was no different.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Sounds like clever behavior by the parrotbills, right? But maybe that is actually a good thing.

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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

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Here’s a video of Ted Cruz agreeing with the ultra right-wing crazies and promising to grant them their wish. The goals of these national right wing groups seek the handover of federal land to private ownership. What has been the Republican response to this illegal occupation ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=flLFQnW7CUc. v=flLFQnW7CUc.

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