10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

Jidhu Jose Mar 11th, 2011 at 1:49 pm awesome sky shot happy SWF Eva Mar 11th, 2011 at 2:22 pm This weekend I’ll be birding I mean working at Green Cay Nature Center, looking for a Virginia Rail and then it’s off to camp at Corbett WMA and see if I have any luck at RCWs. Who knew a colony lived so far in South Florida!

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2011 Deer Birds New York 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

We were driving up to northwestern Michigan from our homes in Ohio (me) and West ByGod Virginia (Geoff) in search of a bird species that would be a lifer for both of us: the Bohemian Waxwing. A wide-open field in a wind-protected spot, recently visited by both mechanical and living manure-spreaders. This was Snow Bunting heaven.

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2011 Birds Michigan Ohio 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. million into the state economy each year.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 256