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JANUARY 29, 2020

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. Prior to being served an obscene amount of fried local fish for lunch, a young local church member took us out on the estuary in his panga , a small rowboat used for fishing.

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Birds 2006 Mexico Morocco 164

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MARCH 1, 2017

Here in side the marina, one of the favorite fishing spots for all of the visiting herons and egrets, is the cement barrier that defines the launching ramp for trailered boats. This launch ramp is about 50 feet from my front door, so I get to watch quite a bit of activity, both birds and boats around that small piece of cement.

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Birds Mexico Sparrows Fish 107

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AUGUST 15, 2018

The Pigeon Guillemot is bringing a small fish for breakfast back to the nest. In addition to all the community events, garage sales, and pancake breakfasts, was a notice of a seminar on the “Sea Birds of the San Juan Islands” at 6:00 Pm that night. Here is a small group of the Pigeon Guillemots near their rocky Cliffside nesting area.

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Oregon Bald Eagle Owls Groups 100

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MAY 28, 2014

I remember going to a health and safety seminar and struggling to identify potential pitfalls. This has typically not been a problem as there isn’t generally a great deal to see in caves that isn’t a horrifying bug or a cave fish, and really, I’m fine not seeing them. Maybe I’d trip on rocks walking to the cave?

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Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 155

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APRIL 6, 2012

Last semester, while taking a seminar devoted to reading Ulysses , I decided that what the world needed was an index to all the bird references in the works of James Joyce. Skimmer by Steve Hillebrand, courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service a. 2000 for sure, you guys), and the 1940s sex manuals (redacted).

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