10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2021
That unwanted yet predictable final bit of killing cold weather was and is why most of the colorful insectivores, the true birds of summer, remained far to the south until May. Not long after, they will be flying to breeding grounds in West Virginia, Quebec, and Vermont to become birds of summer.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2014
“Mine are always found near the local funeral home,” says Maureen Eiger, in Virginia. “I asked Gay Frazee, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, referring to the time Pope Francis released two white doves as a symbol of peace, and they were immediately attacked by a gull and a crow. And weddings?
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. Only–Virginia Woolf was not in Surrey on December 14th, 1918.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2019
Although the country is around the same size as West Virginia, 39 species of diurnal raptors are on the list. Oh, and yes, some do also kill our local “turkey”, the Great Curassow. The tropical habitats of Costa Rica are home to a surprising number of raptor species. This curassow is great.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2020
Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. Creeping Fig / Virginia Creeper: Birds love to nest on the 3-story green wall made by these vines. My climate is very wet in the summer, and bone-dry in the winter.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2014
Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. Here’s why. The anole didn’t make it, but the grackle survived and was released.”. Freeing birds from glue traps is not easy. “I
Critter News
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
after pleading guilty to bankrolling a dogfighting operation at a home he owned in eastern Virginia's Surry County. He also admitted to participating in the killing of several underperforming dogs. Vick is serving a 23-month sentence at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan.,
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