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My Do-over

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But, as I detailed last week , that drive to the Pacific Coast was a rather spectacular failure, because of a highly unseasonal rain, and my failure to recharge my camera battery. But this time, it would be in the afternoon, with strong winds and brilliant sunshine… and a full camera battery. And where was the nearest beach?

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Noisy, but nice

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Blogging is a peculiar activity. But something must happen otherwise, God forbid, there will be nothing to blog about. In the moderate warmth of a Miami morning, he was able to sustain his fan under light cloud for longer than my camera battery could last.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of October 2012)

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No wonder folks are hoarding water and batteries! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I don’t know how things are in your part of the world, but in my geographic proximity, people are freaking out. They seems pretty pleased to be on the property themselves! How about you?

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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One nice little story for my blog post lost. Other useful information in the Wikipedia article includes the factoid that it shows very rapid ingestion rates, taking on average 6 seconds for the prey to reach the stomach after capture (motto of this blog: We read Wikipedia for you so you do not have to).

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Come@Me Week Round Up

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1PM – Clare: Cameras with AA Batteries are the Best. If you managed to miss anything during our week of belligerence and strong opinions here’s your chance to go back and click on some wonderful posts! 7AM – Intro Post. 7AM – Corey: Snowy Owls are Superior in Every Way to Great Gray Owls.

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Welcome to Come@Me Week

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1PM – Clare: Cameras with AA Batteries are the Best. We are more refined, merely enjoying invasive species, thinking extinct birds are gone and you should get over it, and that those who like to watch gulls probably have a screw or two loose. You can see our full week’s worth of scheduled offerings below: SUNDAY.

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Smile and say “meow”!

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I could not wait to get the batteries in and start taking photos. You can read all about what they have been able to do on their blog, Four Corners Dark. It arrives inside a round tin with a photo of a cat face on it. Once you pop the top open, you then see the camera, which follows the cat theme with it’s fun wink and lens eye.

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