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West Point Cadet’s Mouse Release

10,000 Birds

As the cadet tells the camera, “I’m relieved … but I’m kinda sad, too, I just got to know him,” a hawk enters, stage left, grabs the mouse, and exits, stage right. “No!” My heart goes out to the cadet (the hawk is probably awfully fond of him right now, too). cries the cadet. “He He didn’t even last five minutes!”.

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Owls, the debait

10,000 Birds

Inspire me to try a little harder to get that composition just right, to get that jaw-dropping moment. One wouldn’t tether a rabbit out to get a shot of a fox or a coyote, or is that somehow different? Photos that capture great behaviour, and the incredible beauty of birds. It bugs the heck out of me, but should it?

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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

Reddit Animals

Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. I've heard someone saw some coyotes about a year ago but I haven't seen or heard them. We do have a possum and a raccoon that live somewhere on the property. And I have found one small dead garden snake in the street. but that's pretty much it for mammals.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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