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No Snow on Long Island

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We switched up our agenda and decided to join Seth and Gene and a trio of Staten Islanders on a trip around Long Island looking for lingering rarities and anything else that we might manage to come across on a full day’s birding.

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“Purple Martins” by Carl Sandburg

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Five fat geese Eat grass on a sod bank And never count your slinging ciphers, your sliding figure eights. One of them cements Sandburg as a favorite poet of mine: “Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.&# Yes it is. Dip and get away From loops into slip-knots, Write your own ciphers and figure eights. … a.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Also, with the opening of more hunting seasons i am hopefull that more concerned sportsmen will start an organization along the same grain as Ducks Unlimited to protect and create Sandhill habitat. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp! From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4 Isn’t that neat?

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