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Over the Mountain

10,000 Birds

The apartment was in an older house that had been rather eccentrically divided, and while it had certain advantages over my then-current place (a working thermostat, less rapacious landlord, closer to campus) I was unsure if I shouldn’t hold out for something even better.

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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

10,000 Birds

The room was one stuffed with pillows – it seems some landlords think the more pillows are in a room, the cozier the place is. Due to some misallocation of bird species, I saw the Bateleur Eagle near Malelane, not near Bateleur Camp, where a more professional marketing team would have located the bird.

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