Critter News
MARCH 7, 2012
The story, by author and animal rights activist Ernest Dempsey calls Stanwood, Washington “Death Row for horses” because of the location not far away of a “major buying station, collection point and feedlot for U.S. horses destined to die and be butchered in one of Canada’s equine slaughterhouses for human consumption abroad.”
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
They vary in construction and there is also a wide variation in the items that they collect. Traditionally the Great Bowerbirds collect mostly white and green items, but this varies by location. Around the township of Broome the Great Bowerbirds collect both white and green items , which are both natural and man-made.
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Critter News
JANUARY 17, 2011
It's a festival in which the horses are sanctified by the flames, they are liberated from all their ills," said Quique, 30, who takes part in the festival every year. Tree branches for the fires are collected for weeks ahead of the festival. We don't force them," Quique said.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Over the past two weeks I have introduced you to the section of items that Great Bowerbird will collect in a remote area of Keep River National Park with no human influence and then at the Big Horse Creek camping ground.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2014
The horse is probably out of the barn on this plant anyway, as it has spread quite a bit, but I can see both sides of the argument. In speaking to one of the owners of the lodge, Tom Newmark, he let me know that they agonize over plants like this. On the one hand, they want native plants growing. You won’t regret it!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2014
There are many stories at Dunrovin – rescued horses, challenging dogs, miniature donkeys with flamboyant personalities – but two of the stars are a pair of Osprey s dubbed Ozzie and Harriet. Recently I started working with Dunrovin Ranch, a local guest ranch, on their web project Days at Dunrovin.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
“Purple Martins&# first appeared in print in Carl Sandburg’s 1920 collection of poems, Smoke and Steel , published six years after he rose to prominence following the publication of some of his poems in the famed Poetry magazine. Go on tumbling half over at the horse heads of the sun. Twirl on, you and your satin blue.
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