One of the first birds I learned as a kid was the American woodcock – sadly because my father, uncles and older brothers were hunters, and I would see the dead woodcocks lined up with the pheasants, grouse and rabbits. Ah well, those days are long gone….
I think I was also drawn to this little [...]
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It’s funny how we make plans, lay out what we want to do (and what we don’t want to do) and just when we think we have it all sorted out, it suddenly isn’t anything at all like what you expected. That’s part of what makes life interesting…
So in the short, more-than-you-need-to-know version, I’ll say [...]
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It amazes me how small the world can seem sometimes, and how much these computers we rely on each day can help reduce the miles. Banding is underway at RRBO and though I’m not there doing the actual fieldwork for this migration, the administrative tasks, report-filing, website maintenance and daily communication with the current bander-in-charge, [...]
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