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German Birding Blitz

10,000 Birds

At least Europe has some great bird species, so this past June my fiancé, Jess, and I booked our trip to Deutschland, for our first trip overseas, where I would focus on birds and she castles, towns, and culture. Once on our own, Jess and I decided to try a fun experiment. Either that or having family friends in Germany.

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Fizzle’s Story

4 The Love Of Animals

Hospice Tails is a series of true stories about my experiences with pets and patients as a hospice social worker. The thin, spider-web scars on her knuckles spoke to intimate experience with hand-to-hand combat. Then I noticed that several family members were also nursing bleeding wounds. I swore and jumped back.

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I Get Back

10,000 Birds

My first experience birding was as a teenager back in the 70s, when birding meant a pair of binoculars, a couple of bird feeders, and a smallish field guide (book). But time, apparently, heals all wounds, and this August I went back to discover that while Pino Real may never again be what it once was, it is still good.

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