4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

'This video is sure to make your day! What happens when you take some stressed out humans and offer them a bit of relaxing therapy? A surprise that is full of adorableness, that’s what! And, it looks like it worked too. Who could stay stressed after playing with a bunch of adorable kittens? In true SoulPancake fashion, they built the world’s first ever kitten therapy office for chronic. stress cases. “Patients” step into a clear glass therapy office where they are guided

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

'In September, I had the fantastic opportunity to travel to an increasingly popular destination for birding: Honduras. Chris Lotz, the owner of the international bird tour company Birding Ecotours , invited me to join him on a familiarization trip that included several highland sites as well as Pico Bonito Lodge. In this first installment, I will focus on my impressions and experiences in the highlands portion of our tour.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

'On October 29 th 2012, “superstorm” Sandy devastated the east coast of the USA, affecting states from Florida to Maine, with severe damage in New Jersey and New York. That same evening, from his boarded-up garret, Corey posted a gallery of Yellow-rumped Warblers which he had photographed along the coast of New York, just before the storm hit. We know that Corey and his family came through the ordeal safely, but what of the warblers?

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

'I saw that we had snow in the forecast yesterday, so I set up our time lapse camera just for fun to capture it. If you look closely you will see a few birds too, small and large. The little birds are called juncos, and they love to come eat our walnuts. We also get a few woodpeckers, and pigeons. You will see both juncos and pigeons in the video. Note, this video has no sound.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

'It’s a month to I go traveling in Africa again, but between that date and now I have a massive project to deliver, which has reached the ‘invading my dreams’ level of panic. Consequently my usual pre-travel excitement is a lot lower than usual, and I’m spending much less time than I’d like unproductively daydreaming about the birds I’ll see.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

'Yesterday I saw a Dark-eyed Junco while I was walking my dog. It was the Slate-colored form, of course. No more candybox Juncos for me, nor Cassin’s Finches , nor Bohemian Waxwings , nor Black-billed Magpies , nor confiding Red-breasted Nuthatches alighting on me as I fill the feeder. No feeder at all, in fact, no American Goldfinch , no Song Sparrows even unless I go looking for them.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

'If you’re someone who lives in the moment and cares little for what lies ahead, you might be forgiven for enjoying your weekend for what it was. But those of us who schedule forward know the crush of holiday commitments lurking just over the chronological horizon. Live in the moment while you can, grasshoppers… winter holidays are coming.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

'This week we have returned home to Broome and the trip was not leisurely due to the transfer of work. We were required to travel home over two days for Grant to return to work here after working in Darwin over the past few weeks. The easiest way to divide the 1873 kilometres (1164 miles) is to travel to Kununurra the first day and then back to Broome the next day, which is how we travelled when we went north.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

'On Saturday morning I was exploring the newly-mowed Edgemere Landfill, one of my favorite birding spots in Queens, enjoying birds like Eastern Meadowlarks and American Pipits , both of which seemed to appreciate two years of brush being removed. There were Northern Harriers hunting low over what portions are as of yet unmowed, Cooper’s Hawks using some of the berms as cover for sneak attacks, and American Kestrel feasting on cold grasshoppers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

'Watching African Skimmers and a gorgeous sunset makes a person most thankful. As we hurtle ever closer to the American day of thanks, I’m struck by the realization that we don’t begin celebrating this holiday early like we do Christmas or Halloween. That’s a shame, since gratitude is far more becoming, not to mention spiritually enriching, that the greed or gluttony attached to most observances (not that I’m against those either.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

'My best bird of the weekend was a Great Black-backed Gull , a rarity in a land-locked Serbia, with less than 10 observations so far. Could it be the same individual that I observed here last winter ? It was at the same spot, but this time I have found a way to get much closer. At first, I made a few record shots, digiscoping through the Swarovski 25-60×65 STX with a hand-held mobile phone, until the battery went flat.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

'This past weekend I headed out to eastern North Carolina with a group of friends to try our hand at a Rarity Roundup. These events, and their rise in the Mid-Atlantic in late fall, have been interesting to me for quite a while. In North Carolina, at least, the entire eastern part of the state is sparsely populated and under-birded, aside from the well-known an well-trod Outer Banks circuit, but even that popular vacation site is left mostly untouched aside from a few locals in November, which t

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