10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A Change in Law. I wish for a federal law prohibiting domestic and feral cats from roaming free outdoors. A massage therapist for an hour every morning, then I wouldn’t be so bitchy,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. High Technology.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2014
As bird lovers, we’re happy that laws exist to protect birds, and that people are especially looking after protected species. But parts of Fire Island are nesting habitats for the threatened Piping Plover (like the one above that I photographed, albeit in Massachusetts). In the United States, a few of those conundrums are making news.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences.
Critter News
JANUARY 3, 2011
According to this Technorati article , the Humane Society rated the states on their animal protection laws. New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
Had I known the law better I would have said, “Excuse me, but this trap is not worth over $250 nor have I damaged it with explosives, so in the State of New York you cannot legally charge me with Malicious Mischief.” “Do you think this is funny?” he snapped, glaring at me as if I were an eight-year-old. “I
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Both the US Environmental Protection Agency and California state law define fish remains as sewage, and it must be disposed of properly. Remembering a fourth-grade class where he learned that Massachusetts Native Americans planted fish heads along with their corn, he collected fish waste and composted it.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2011
The area has a law in place to prevent attracting deer, you can have a bird feeder, but you can’t offer food on the ground. Granted, the law is written poorly, but the man was given several warnings and insisted on feeding birds on the ground and attracted huge flocks of ducks and no doubt raccoons at night.
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