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Thank a lemming

10,000 Birds

Lemmings can have four or five litters a year of as many eight young. The energy they expend will be sorely needed to get them through the winter and get them home to their breeding range up here. They are able to breed at the age of 5-6 weeks so it is easy to see, given the right conditions how quickly their population can grow.

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In Memoriam

10,000 Birds

She also thought it was perfectly reasonable to sleep in until 10:00 on a Saturday morning in May, especially after seeing me struggle through spring migration year after year, sleep-deprived, cranky, and sore-necked – not to mention being unreasonably miffed about whatever birds I may have missed. We didn’t always agree on everything.

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