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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of October 2013)

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The long Columbus Day weekend still sails on here in the United States, so if you haven’t found a worthy bird to report for the weekend yet, you may still have time… This weekend also marks the point in the year where I stop taking Turkey Vultures for granted, which made me enjoy the many spotted soaring overhead.

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Chacachacare Island

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Some famous (and famously questionable) personalities have also visited in the past, names like Christopher Columbus and Donald Trump come to mind. But I was set to virtually present about birding in T&T and suddenly the dearth of images and experience from the northwest corner of Trinidad became apparent.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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According to some sources, when the so-called Pilgrims settled in for the First Thanksgiving Dinner with the local Native Americans, in 1620, they dined on Turkey, and this Turkey came from the Old World, from stock that was originally brought to Spain by Columbus. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. Kiva 78(1):37–60.

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Wagging Tales

4 The Love Of Animals

Written by Tim Link, a full-time animal communicator and Reiki energy healer for animals, he shares his personal experiences. If you are an animal lover, you will enjoy each of the heartfelt stories, and it may even get you to look at your own pets in a new way.

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Burial Beer Co.: Surf Wax India Pale Ale

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My own birding experience in upstate New York this week was much more mundane, with dwindling numbers of Blackpoll Warblers signaling the end of spring migration and prompting my return to a normal sleep schedule. and the continental ABA area, but possibly the Atlantic Ocean itself. at home on my couch in Albany.

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Conklin Farm Owner Will Not Face Charges

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From the Columbus Dispatch. The Union County sheriff's office said it had four veterinarians with experience in large-animal care review the tape. "In A Union County grand jury has decided the owner of a Union County dairy farm caught in an abuse scandal should not face criminal charges.on

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic.

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