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I Get Back

10,000 Birds

My first experience birding was as a teenager back in the 70s, when birding meant a pair of binoculars, a couple of bird feeders, and a smallish field guide (book). I realize I’m not in Kansas (well, California) anymore. I have birding buddies! … to where I once belonged. They start to visit me.

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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

10,000 Birds

A hero of the Rip Van Winkle Rod & Gun Club is – no doubt – Bob Aronsohn, who lives in Kansas and in December 2013 celebrated killing his 150,000th crow. Wounded birds were left to crawl away into the woods; sometimes, during breaks, children were encouraged to run across the field, scoop them up, and tear their heads off.

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