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Fog, drizzle and four road blockades

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At first I thought of a possible road accident, but soon I learned that protesting farmers have blocked the road ahead. Not at all, they are very right to protest, and I have no issue with the farmers – we all share the same enemy, our own President. Protest indeed! There’s an incoming car in my lane, and I am not in India!

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The Reva Situation

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Reva is also a part of the local Important Bird and Biodiversity Area “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers”. Then a famous local actress, Svetlana Bojkovic, visited the protesters when a loaded lorry arrived, so she took part in stopping it. The post The Reva Situation appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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A Morning of Birding in Costa Rica, July, 2020

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As the tide of climate disaster keeps rising, protests continue, and economies fall into recession, we move through time and space in a limbo of anxiety and uncertainty. I draw quiet strength and hope from birds. It’s all good in this birding hood, the more you look and listen, the more you find.

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Beljarica Backwaters are finally protected!!

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Beljarica Backwaters (some August birding here ) is a spacious floodplain of the left bank of the Danube, less than 10 km / 6 mi north of Belgrade, and is an exciting place to bird. If they return a while, we know not if they smile or weep beneath their tan.”. 12 years later, I am no longer the same person who started all that.

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of March 2015?

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Somewhere deep in the tropics, a warm, fat, contented bird is beginning to feel the merest inkling of restlessness. ” the bird will ask. I cannot wait to see that bird! I’ll be staying indoors in protest against this prolonged arctic occupation of my part of the world. Birding March weekend'

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More Swamp Stories

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These small macaws don’t show their namesake red bellies often, but with yellow faces and blue flight feathers they are still flashy little birds. While we were there, a pair of Rufous Crab Hawks noisily protested the presence of a Common Black Hawk that was comfortably perched in the vegetation.

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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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My readers are already familiar with Beljarica Backwaters, as described in half a dozen posts here at 10,000 Birds. It all started well three decades ago, when I intensively birded the Danube Backwaters by kayak. The post Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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