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People of a Feather

10,000 Birds

The day before the marmot encounter, I spotted an American Robin on my lawn; the night before that, the distinctive sound of a small flock of Snow Geese sounded from the sky above my apartment, heading north. For yes, it is that time again. The one thing that a traditional nature documentary often lacks is real characters, to its detriment.

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Holy Island, Northumberland

10,000 Birds

The skies were full of thousands of Greylag Geese , Pink-footed Geese , Barnacle Geese and Brent Geese on the move and in the shallow water there were already hundreds of Bar-tailed Godwits , Eurasian Oystercatchers , Dunlin and Eurasian Curlew. Thousands of Geese on the move on dusk. Eurasian Curlew.

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