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Shutting Your Trap

10,000 Birds

Had I known the law better I would have said, “Excuse me, but this trap is not worth over $250 nor have I damaged it with explosives, so in the State of New York you cannot legally charge me with Malicious Mischief.” “Do you think this is funny?” he snapped, glaring at me as if I were an eight-year-old. “I

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

deep-pandemic birds (all local), and still-pandemic birds (a little travel), it is the Rhode Island Common Cuckoo that will define this year for me. Donna is up next and she has a bird that she had to chase: It’s Common Cuckoo for the win! In a year divided by pre-pandemic birds (travel!),

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