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Week four: We wrap up our stay in the US.

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The end of this rather long road trip finds us here in Puyallup, Washington which is just south of Seattle. We pulled into the RV park next to the Washington State Fairgrounds on Saturday afternoon, and it promptly started snowing! These were my first Fox Sparrows of the year. I got to see several Brown Creepers in the area.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)

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My first bird in Washington DC, where I am visiting for the weekend. Also present in other parts of the park were fox and white-throated sparrows. Some of the bird calls picked out from his repertoire were African Quailfinch, Crowned Lapwing, Longtailed Widow and Didericks Cuckoo. Falling through the ice could not have been fun.

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Donald Trump And His Cabinet Are Destroying Our Environment

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Scott Pruitt was confirmed as the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. This is the guy that’s suppose to protect our environment. million-acre protected area in southeast Utah that is prized by many tribal leaders but opposed by several state and federal Republican officials.