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Pat’s 2020 Bird List, Mostly from Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Most of all, the time and effort is worth it when we see new birds, surpass our goals, and when we share those trying, challenging, exuberant and triumphant times with others because the birding party is always better, always stronger, when you you can enjoy the experience with like-minded souls. Squirrel Cuckoo – Piaya cayana; Curu, 4-Jan.

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Weird Geese

10,000 Birds

We share our experiences, good and bad. I am going to make a big assumption and put it to you that it migrated north during the summer and has returned to the farm for the winter, picking up a flock along the way and leading them back here. It has pink legs and its bill is orange with pink on the upper mandible, towards the tip.

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Finca Luna Nueva Lodge: Biodynamic, Bird-rich Ecolodge

10,000 Birds

That experience along with additional opportunities to explore the property with guide Ismael Torres established what we expected all along: Finca Luna Nueva is very birdy with a reserve list of over 240 species. The higher purpose of the lodge attracts visitors interested in biodynamic farming. But I also love Gray-necked Wood-rails.

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Owls, Owls, and more Owls in SE Arizona

10,000 Birds

Getting to actually see four species, in the last two weeks, and to hear two more is almost unheard of in my experience. Last week, a good friend, Dan Weisz gave me a tip on the location of a family of Burrowing Owls that were extremely easy to access. It all started in getting to photograph the Northern Pygmy-owls in Madera Canyon.

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The Problem with Weight is NOT Losing It

4 The Love Of Animals

Read on for some fascinating tips on how working with animals relates to our own weight! Using my Balance Differential number and other tips I learned, I have reduced my average daily calorie intake by only 100 calories — and now I weigh 30 pounds less! I have battled with my weight since age fifteen.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

Harper, a farm boy, had never heard of feeding stations and had also, apparently, never before taken a good hard look at birds. He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. In 1954, art editor Arthur Lougee asked Harper to illustrate an E.B.

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Transit in Dubai

10,000 Birds

This post might give you a few ideas for what to see during a stop in Dubai and a few tips on where to go and how to get there. Do not expect a taxi driver to know the site as it is basically a turf farm with little or nothing to attract punters in from the outside. You will need to know the way.

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