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Enjoying the Orange Peril

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In later years it included a class for digiscoping which I entered a few times. I was placed one year with a photograph of little egrets, taken at Kerkini in Greece, while the following year I won the class with a shot of Wryneck, photographed in an orchard in Poland ( above ).

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7 State Parks for Fall Colors and Birding

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The coves are populated with oak, hemlock, poplar, and the area is stream-rich (including a Class V river gorge) with lush understories and shrubs. There are 2,037 acres to explore, including miles of abandoned logging roads and hiking trails. If you visit later in the year, join Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count. Yellow-rumped Warbler.

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Burrowing Owls of Cape Coral

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These owls don’t live in a state park or any sort of protected area, they live in the neighborhoods, right next door to stucco middle-class Florida homes, going about their business in a landscape of manicured lawns and screened-in porches.

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Bird like I bird

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I know that you have ever-so-organized birding clubs, with their beginning birdwatching classes, monthly field trips, and (just imagine!) Wander into a bit of abandoned second-growth forest. I know all about your fancy Interpretive Centers, pre-built observation blinds and platforms, and wooden marsh walkways. pelagic tours.

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According to their Kind

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I just chalked this up to my friends being weird, until I took the Master Naturalist Class at the Montana Natural History this fall. The Master Naturalist class gave me a first look at this. Way, way back, during our inuagural game of Gone Birding , my friend Molly developed a theory of birds. Knowing what a sparrow is is kind of easy.

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Flock to Marion

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After looking through every bar, we concluded that all had abandoned the ship without warning us. On a typical cruise, folks sleep in, have a lazy breakfast, sit by the pool with a cocktail, and watch the world-class entertainment. Little did we know, they went to bed early to rise early.

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Take Wing and Fly Here by Priyanka Kumar

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” We are presented, uncritically, with pages and pages of his self-pity and petty resentments about his long-distance eventually-ex girlfriend, his stoic but grieving working-class parents, his new love interest, and pretty much everything else in his life.