10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. Meanwhile, on Chongming island, I rescued a Northern Shoveler which got caught in one of these evil, almost invisible strings that the farmers use to protect their fields from hungry birds. Did the bird thank me? Did it f*ck.

Raccoons 213

Raccoons Birds Oregon China 213

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

I say they were butchered, face-off. Yet, opposition to their full protection came from an unexpected side, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), whose Head of Delegation said: “These proposals would [not] have offered elephant populations any greater protection from the poachers. One may say so. And it gave me a hope.

Elephants 184

Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 184

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

.* Having flown to Washington State on a family vacation the first obstacle was easily out of the way, which you knew already if you ever read this blog. Protection Island and Mt. Baker Pelagic Cormorant colony on Protection Island Of course we saw more birds but as the light weakened it became difficult to get quality pictures.

Washington 170

Washington Protection Puffins Rhinoceros 170