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A Gentlemen’s Big Day’s Birding

10,000 Birds

Our next stop was a pig field where Andrew had heard Stone Curlews a couple of weeks before, but on this cool and misty morning there wasn’t a sound to be heard. There was a good variety of ducks, including Tufted, Gadwall and Shoveler, plus our first waders of the day. We stopped at 1pm for our afternoon break, with the score on 77.

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Week 26: San juan Islands

10,000 Birds

That, and 10 days back on the way was going to be a great to recharge the batteries after a long round-the-world trip. Out on one of the rocks that were visible during low tide, a small group of Harlequin Ducks had gathered. This is also the location of the great Pig War of 1872. Here is one of them standing in the kelp.

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