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Not just for the birds

10,000 Birds

If I had known that these Amanita caesareas smell pleasantly of eggs, I would have taken a sniff. Sometimes it is the experience that makes them memorable. I immediately remembered the Sandra Boynton cartoon of an elephant lying down while turkeys stand upon it, with the caption “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.”

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A great week for Wood-Warblers

10,000 Birds

We did however see a Yellow-rumped Warbler at Elephant Butte Lake, New Mexico on 16th November 1989 and a Townsend’s Warbler at Big Sur, California on 3rd December 1989. Read about them here but also get out and experience them. You won’t regret it! ———————————————————————————————————————————————— a.