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A Brief Tour of Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

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It’s still hard for me to wrap my head around this trip, my first on a brand new continent. They bounce around limbs like jays and scurry like squirrels. In fact, let’s just just go with “squirrel-jays”, because that’s pretty close. I, personally, had around 430. Sunbirds are hummingbird, I guess.

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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

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Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. Idk, generic store brand bird lol. the last part is raptor behavior but I can't imagine what kind of bird would be small enough to choose this space when there's 300 yds of chain link fence right there, and I've yet to see a dead squirrel, rabbit or chipmunk.

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The Cutting Edge II: Hummingbird Feeders

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I previously wrote about patents for birdseed feeders , particularly ones directed to problems with squirrel “marauders.” The Woodstream Corporation has a number of brands, one of which is Perky-Pet , a major player in the bird feeding industry. They are still containers, primarily red, to dispense sugar water via an imitation flower.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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And squirrels. Aggravatingly, many squirrels. How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works).

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

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I had the snot bitten out of my thumb by a squirrel who didn’t want a bath,” said Shannon Keith. “I All the way through – and a brand-new volunteer had to pull it out! This photo may look like the work of a baby bobcat, but actually it was one of two squirrels Kim Cassidy overwintered. “He

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Hiking in Busan

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I have never let the weather stop me here… OK, there has been a time when I had a raincoat on for three hours and saw a squirrel and not a single bird in the forest and admitted defeat! I did go back a week later and enjoyed the birdlife and realised how treacherous the track would have been in the wet.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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There’s a Three-striped Palm Squirrel by the side of the track, while Jungle Bush Quails are running across it in front of our Maruti Gypsy, almost the official safari vehicle of India. Trying not to inhale so much of the dust cloud that envelops us, I am sporting a bandana tied bank-robber style.

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