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Birding after the Wet Season

10,000 Birds

It really makes you realise how sensitive the human body is to humidity variations. There had been cattle in the area and we kept coming across bizarre butterfly circles. All we can think is that they were attracted to an area where there had been cattle urine and they were getting the natural salts.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A. So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely? The live feed can be monitored by any and all who are willing to watch. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. Jonathan Spitz Westfield, N.J.,