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Birder Identification

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” -Our Ritual Greeting It was after about fifteen minutes on the dike at Higbee Beach Wildlife Management Area with a pleasant couple from Maryland that I realized that we had managed to have quite a conversation that touched on a variety of topics but managed to not introduce ourselves.

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From the Mailbag

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Dear Keith, Mylan, and Jonathan, My name is Miry and I’m from Potomac, Maryland. I found this very inspiring, and would have never have seen it if not for your blog, so thank you for that. I found this very inspiring, and would have never have seen it if not for your blog, so thank you for that. I read it all the time.

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Climate Change and Birds

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I write a lot about climate change on my other blog , and so I don’t really feel a strong need to touch on this topic very often here. A few years ago, the Maryland DNR decided to elevate some of its structures by a couple of feet in order to get them out of the way of impending sea level rise. Because it is.

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Snowy Owl Invasion!

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If you want to keep up with what is going on up there you can do worse than The Bruce Mactavish Newfoundland Birding Blog. Though the birders in Bermuda who spotted one over the weekend are probably pretty happy too – it is their third record in thirty years!). Can you even imagine hundreds of Snowy Owls ? I certainly can’t.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

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Somehow, I feel this post about the few pheasants I have seen in China has gotten off to a wrong start – not quite the kind of motivation to blog readers to continue reading this post. I’d rather see one shy pitta or robin than ten overconfident, arrogant pheasants. Wait, does that remind me of anyone? Never mind. Connecticut.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

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The Newsweek article also reports that year before last, a Maryland woman breast-feeding in a Starbucks was asked to move to a restroom if she wanted to continue feeding her baby. Fourth, post fair and accurate descriptions of the incident on blogs and encourage readers to boycott the offending business.

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