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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. Yet, the environmental problems are pulling people together, uniting the people with very different political views with the simplest of all agendas: “We want to breathe clean air, we want clean tap water.” Golden Jackals in Beljarica.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. That may have put the idea into more people’s minds for when we get out of this.

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Suburban Roadrunners of Southern Missouri

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Last year, I finally crossed paths with Cerulean Warbler , but this year, with little birding on the agenda, I needed something easy. I don’t expect that any bird down the road will allow for an experience as surreal as this one though. It’s getting harder for me to pick up new Missouri birds on my semi-annual returns.

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Operation Nix-the-Petting-Zoo, Part Deux

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Coincidentally, last night was a board meeting for our homeowner's association, and though I wasn't on the agenda there's always time for homeowner comments about, say, the petting zoo and pony rides that are scheduled for the spring "BBQ" ( here 's part one of this story).

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On "Food Inc."

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Film is a visual medium and through direction, dialogue, editing, music and any effects, the filmmaker presents (in this case) his agenda. They grill the chickens, and trust me when I say it's all presented as a peak spiritual experience.

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An Embarrassment of Riches

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A surplus of quality birding experiences kept me from making my reports, which is embarrassing. This visit to southern Spain, however, fell in the middle of raptor migration, so flamingos were not on my agenda. But I couldn’t even find time to finish processing my photos and identifying the birds they showed.

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Rough and Ruddy

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For far too long I had joined them, and I was experiencing the early onsets of “scope-eye”, that mildly uncomfortable ache you experience in your non-dominant eye when you’re squinting into a scope for hours on end. The Pac Loon never made an appearance.

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