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The Little Big Year-week 46: All this fun comes to an end

10,000 Birds

A few nights ago, I sat out in a light snow/rain mix, in the pitch black of Madera Canyon, trying to find a Whiskered Screech Owl. By 7:30, two of the owls starting calling back and forth across the small ravine, and I had my 1300th bird! Marty St Louis – Manager at Summer Lake NWR, Summer Lake Oregon.

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Birding Vignettes from a Camping Trip

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My bright red St. Louis Cardinals hat. ” of a Barred Owl was repeated several times before a second bird, much more distant, started in as well. It called and called and called and called, allowing everyone a look. I took my hat off and hid it under my shirt. That was as good a lullaby as I could ask for and I fell asleep.

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Half Hardy

10,000 Birds

When he’s not looking for birds, which is not often, he enjoy music with banjos in it, disc golf, good beer, progressive politics and the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team and he’s not particularly shy about sharing his opinion on any of those things. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Wicked, right?