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Beats the Beltway: a review of Bruce Beehler’s book “Natural Encounters”

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bike commutes, Natural Encounters describes other Beehler forays — as far south as the renowned “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, where you can see enough Roseate Spoonbills to give you an ice-cream headache, and as far north as less well-known locales in northern New Hampshire and elsewhere.

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A Brief Interview with Greg Miller

10,000 Birds

Bicknell’s Thrush is a bird that is important to me because I grew up in New York’s Catskill Mountains, one of the places that it breeds. Washington in New Hampshire in July. When and where did you see yours during your big year? The Catskills are beautiful, but I found my Bicknell’s Thrush on Mt.