10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2016

I was visiting with my mother, sister, and brother, and our attention was torn between two features: birds and Pokemon. Stay for the woodchucks, red-bellied woodpeckers, and snapping turtles.” In that instant, he or she becomes hooked on birds as much as Pokemon, and a life-long birder is born.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2011

Fortunately, a pair of fellow Queens birders who will be known to those who read my posts about going to Ecuador, Karlo and Alison Mirth, witnessed a Tufted Titmouse taking hair from a Raccoon in Forest Park, Queens, recently and Alison got some pictures that she agreed to let me share here on 10,000 Birds. … a.

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Raccoons Woodchucks Opossums Squirrels 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

Sure enough, I looked up to see a pair of yellow-bellied marmots, big woodchuck-esque creatures with adorable nose patches, come bounding and sliding down the steep, sparsely-tree range above the trail. During the winter the birds are dependent on small fissures in the sea ice kept open by the currents of the bay.

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Woodchucks Chipmunks Rodents Seals 227

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

” I never did read about them, and eventually the memory of Sammy Blue Jay, Polly Woodchuck, Reddy Fox, and the rest faded to the back of my mind along with the details of Struggle Beneath the Sea and Sharon, Lois, and Bram.

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