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Barred Owl

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Alert calls from a small patch of woodland at Tyson’s Corner, VA, near Washington DC, prompted me to take a look and see what was upsetting the flock of scolding birds. As I inched up the slope on by backside I wondered, should I test my fortune any further by trying to get a photo, or should I high-tail it to the lottery shop?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)

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My first bird in Washington DC, where I am visiting for the weekend. Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. Also the wood storks and sand hill cranes were cool, too.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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’s Lights Out DC, to name a few. Thankfully, there are alternatives to what I ended up doing, taking down the feeders, and they are detailed in the second part of the book, where we learn about the development of bird-safe sheet glass and the use of patterns or films on already installed glass windows.