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Great Gray Owl: Seeing the Ghost

10,000 Birds

We arrived at Maclay Flat just in time to see three men unloading the sort of heavy-duty optics and camera equipment that signals serious birders on the hunt. My erstwhile classmate Asta answered the call, and away we went. Not only did they, but they invited us to tag along with them. We were chasing a ghost, after all.

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Jinx Warbler Vanquished

10,000 Birds

I am sharing it again here, at the request of Corey Finger, who takes some sort of sick pleasure in seeing other birders squirm and suffer under the weight of their obsession with life birds. All the info I needed came in an e-mail from a Minnesota birder named Peder. The day shift, hunting the meadow. –Bill Thompson III.