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Woodland for sale

10,000 Birds

As of next month I am assuming that the airline industry will have no further use for my services and a bleak outlook looms. All terrain vehicle enthusiasts ripped swathes through the wild flowers and fireraisers left the burnt out shuck of a car, so there will almost certainly be work parties to clear the litter and debris.

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Birding In Low Places

10,000 Birds

Not long after I discovered that place, I saw my very first rare bird…a Ruff , which was hanging out in a flood control channel in an industrial area. This Snail Kite, photographed from my treacherous 1999 Honda Accord, was right outside Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, FL. Townsend’s Warbler in a busy city park.

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Kermie

Animal Person

And of course, shuttling wildlife to and fro, and contemplating their place in our lives and our place in theirs. On a very quiet night during a lull in the drama of the ducks, I was researching the Greyhound racing industry, and seething over its treatment of dogs as well as the support it often gets, through subsidies, to help it survive.