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An Embarrassment of Riches

10,000 Birds

I will start by telling you about encounters in Turkey with two special bird families. I really should have encountered these families in Mexico, as they both occur here. This visit to southern Spain, however, fell in the middle of raptor migration, so flamingos were not on my agenda. My only problem is, where to start?

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Wildlife and Life Celebrations

10,000 Birds

Those unable to fathom how one could celebrate a life by filling the skies with latex locked horns with those unable to fathom how any type of alternative could be suggested to a family during their time of loss. Name-calling and charges of agenda-promoting ensued. Make it easily found by mourning families, and fill it with photos.

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Crows, Contest Killing, and Communication

10,000 Birds

Defenders of the gun club accused me of lying, of distorting facts, of being anti-hunting, of being an animal rights activist, of being allied with the dreaded Friends of Animals, of hiding my true agenda (gun control), and of being unconcerned that animal lovers were supposedly threatening members of the gun club with death.

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Birding Rockefeller State Park Preserve

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This past Sunday was a hot sunny day in New York and the family and I took full advantage of it, exploring Rockefeller State Park Preserve, a pretty park in Westchester County, not too far north of the Bronx. No, I have no such diabolical agendas! Pure coincidence! We enjoyed butterflies, dragonflies, and sticks.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

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But his real agenda comes out later in the graph: "However it is imperative that we allow the most up-to-date scientific data on animal agriculture practices to drive the policy decisions we make, and extract emotion from the equation as much as possible. The problem, then, is the question Scott is asking and the assumptions he is making.

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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

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Ken Ivory is not the only politician trying to advance this agenda. Federal water rights that underpin entire agricultural economies, and that are critical to some of the last family farms and ranches in America, will be in play. There are senators and congressmen voting to help states sell off public lands.

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Back from the West!

10,000 Birds

After sixteen days touring the interior west and west coast of the United States with my family I am back in New York City. The birds weren’t high on the agenda while we were in Wyoming but I still managed to see some. I didn’t have much light to work with but a male Western Tanager can’t be ignored.

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