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Eurasian Tree Sparrows from long ago

10,000 Birds

This event took place in April of 1870, in Lafayette Park in St. Red-winged Blackbirds and Starlings around the Arch were panting and flocking to the water features like Saharan castaways. Nevertheless, a life bird is a life bird and it would take a lot more than three confounding factors to make me drive away from St.

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Half Hardy

10,000 Birds

I chanced to glance at a bird perched atop the Oak tree in my back yard, figuring it was one of the Blackbirds or Grackles that had recently returned to my neighborhood. When he’s not looking for birds, which is not often, he enjoy music with banjos in it, disc golf, good beer, progressive politics and the St.