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Winter Wanderland

10,000 Birds

Late summer 2023 the lakes and ponds had been empty, presumably because the ducks and geese were moulting. Our internet research showed that somebody in Pine County had all three ( Black, Brown-capped, and Gray-crowned ) Rosy Finches on the feeders in their garden. And now I did. It is also bird 2100 on my life list. Chuffed to bits!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong.