10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

No, not an Arctic Fox, but a Red Fox in Arctic Finland I may not have seen many wolves, but I have seen lots of foxes (or what I should perhaps call red foxes). Keeping fox numbers down certainly benefits our local ground-nesting birds, especially Stone Curlews and Grey Partridges.)

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Fur Otters Bulgaria Estonia 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

The center of attention are the eagle hunters, erect on their horses, hands protected by thick leather gloves holding their hooded eagles, arms propped up by handmade wooden rests attached to the saddle, weathered faces framed by splendid fur-trimmed hats. (If It’s exciting. It’s part of the natural order of things.

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Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 102

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. I wondered what in the world he’d brought back and discovered the wet ball of fur was a very young bunny. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100