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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

When we arrived we looked and there was our one-eyed eagle, eating a raccoon that had been hit. Their population is in serious decline, so their breeding colonies are monitored by biologists. Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far. That was 9 years ago.

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Getting out of line

10,000 Birds

Breeding behaviour and plumage was very apparent, but John Wise , an ex-pat Brit now resident in Orlando, told me that the birds’ activities had been held up for a couple of weeks during a cold snap that saw frosts in Florida. The nom de blog Redgannet was adopted to add an air of mystery and to make himself more attractive to women.

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