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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

10,000 Birds

He found some solace when, at age eleven, he became entranced with birds – specifically, with a Green Woodpecker — and that sighting, he says, “took me to another, safer world.” . A cheeky lad, Geoffrey McMullan was regularly subjected to brutal discipline at his English boarding school. He probably should do.

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Week three, the road goes on forever.

10,000 Birds

We will cover nearly 3000 miles driving before we reach Seattle, and our final stop. This all netted me three new birds for the list, the Varied Thrush , some Wild Turkeys, and my BBOTW, a Pileated Woodpecker. There is a designated trail, that runs along the hillside near the entrance to the refuge, called the Woodpecker trail.

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