10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
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.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2013
Because whenever I encounter one of these insects I’m either trying to avoid it or kill it, not take a picture of it, and this was the only uncopywrited photo I could find. I arrived home with a nice inch-long incision right between my eyebrows, and found a car parked in my driveway. I’ll tell you how. Just what I wanted! Flat flies!
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2022
Tragically, I never saw any birds near the nest later on – I guess they abandoned it, decided to quit procreating, or just got eaten by some other bird or cat. Taking the famous statement that Mao was 70% right, 30% wrong (Deng Xiaoping), his decision regarding sparrows certainly falls under the second category.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2015
A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do. Mites will eventually kill the bird. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect. So: When do you intervene?
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2016
Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. So right from the beginning, none of this makes any sense. s and “Kill me now!”s. Last year scientists in Ethiopia discovered the jawbone of a 2.8
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. Erik overheard a few waiters joke about the birders “…they keep going left, then right, left, then right.” After looking through every bar, we concluded that all had abandoned the ship without warning us.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2011
I know about the common mistakes people make when they find young birds, assuming that because they’re on the ground with no other birds in sight they must be abandoned or in need of rescue. Even though I was too ignorant to identify the bird, the intake volunteer on the desk recognized him right away.
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