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When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

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Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. The area has a law in place to prevent attracting deer, you can have a bird feeder, but you can’t offer food on the ground. Do neighbors refer to you as bird species + Lady or Guy?

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

10,000 Birds

Before my trip to Washington the only species of puffin I had ever seen in the wild was the puffin of the Atlantic Ocean, the appropriately named Atlantic Puffin. The first obstacle was getting to the general range of the species, which is the west coast from northern California to Alaska and across to Russia.* I love puffins.