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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2019)

10,000 Birds

Now that we’ve entered the third month of the calendar year, take stock: did your birding March come in like a lion or a lamb? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. My birding was positively sheepish during this busy weekend. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of October 2016)

10,000 Birds

The month eases you in, docile as a lamb, but promises to bite you on the back end. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Around here, October feels a lot like March in reverse. Hope you took advantage of one of the more gentle weekends this month has to offer.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of March 2012)

10,000 Birds

This odd weekend began with the end of March, which didn’t exactly go out like a lamb, and ended with the beginning of April. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Only January commences with more fanfare and merriment than April. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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On Thanking Slaughtered Sheep for Book Awards

Animal Person

In her blog yesterday she wrote of her experience accepting the award, and who she thanked and didn't thank. She expressed her gratitude for those she kills in her book, as well: "When I first ate a meal from one of our lambs, I thought I'd be upset, since it'd been so hard to take them to the abbattoir.

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Birding Fallon: Well Worth the Trip

10,000 Birds

Speaking of hawks, two talented and extremely knowledgeable falconers, Marie Gaspari Crawford and Chloe Bowen, shared with us their birds and their experiences. The specials for our dinner at The Slanted Porch in Fallon included dishes prepared from cows and lambs raised by local 4-H Club kids.). Don’t try this at home, kids.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

Our guides were researchers from Callisto, patient and always smiling Yannis Tsanakis (above) and Maria Petridou with her infectious laugh and stories of her Sun Bear and Jaguar research experiences. The cuisine was magnificent, especially lamb. Also, trekking poles proved useful.

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Gardner Williams (1895-1972) on Wronging Animals

Animal Ethics

That is, they contribute to increasing, in the long run, the quantity of satisfaction which an individual experiences. Anyone who loves little lambs in a personal way more than he loves lamb chops in a gustatory way ought to forego the latter delicacies. But few people do this. And eating them will frustrate this love.

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