Fri.Sep 04, 2020

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In Memoriam

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I wasn’t ready to talk about this last week – and besides, last week’s post was mostly written a few weeks ago, before life got in the way of publishing it until then. But I wouldn’t be able to go on posting another routine Birds and Booze review at 10,000 Birds this week without mentioning that Katherine, my fiancée and partner for the last seven last years, passed away two weeks ago from a very brief and unexpected illness.

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of September 2020?

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If you were betting on the most beautiful weekend of the year, you could do worse than put money on the one we’re heading into. Early September tends to provide a tremendously pleasant backdrop to early avian migration. And many Americans will be enjoying a three-day weekend. What’s not to love? I may take a trip out to Montezuma NWR this weekend, both because I haven’t been there all year and on account of the shorebirds that tend to stop over.

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