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Birding In Low Places

10,000 Birds

Slaty-backed Gull at a dump, Baikal Teal at a sewage pond, Yellow-green Vireo at some random park in the ghetto…if a place collects birds, birders will go there. A marsh littered with garbage will still provide refuge for a bittern, considering in many places most wetlands simply don’t exist any more.

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Foster to Fish Creek

10,000 Birds

They often nip back and forth onto the trail collecting food. They are usually busy throwing leaf litter around on the forest floor. We have had a few days with smoke in the air recently, but all things considered we have been very fortunate. One of the most common birds that I have encountered is the Eastern Yellow Robin.

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Kermie

Animal Person

On a very quiet night during a lull in the drama of the ducks, I was researching the Greyhound racing industry, and seething over its treatment of dogs as well as the support it often gets, through subsidies, to help it survive. Based on whatever data she collected, she’d alter her course and continue her search.