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THE CUTE SHOW! Featuring Pygmy Ponies

4 The Love Of Animals

I would love a cute little pygmy pony in our yard! These adorably sweet and fuzzy ponies will do just about anything to get food in their mouths. Naughty ponies. Running through barbed wire or risking a zap from an electric fence? Doesn’t faze them.

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Konik Ponies in Scottish Conservation

10,000 Birds

The Loch of Strathbeg reserve in Aberdeenshire Scotland has begun to use eight rare ‘Konick’ horses to manage and improve it’s wetland habitats for birds.

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Foraging Palm Warblers

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that this time of year I am pretty much a one-trick pony, a single-track record, a birder stuck in a gaudy rut full of wood-warblers. Wood-warbler mania has taken over my brain leaving me unable to do much but look for wood-warblers, dream of wood-warblers, and devise plans as to how I can see more wood-warblers.

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Operation Nix-the-Petting-Zoo, Part Deux

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Coincidentally, last night was a board meeting for our homeowner's association, and though I wasn't on the agenda there's always time for homeowner comments about, say, the petting zoo and pony rides that are scheduled for the spring "BBQ" ( here 's part one of this story). And there's not much from the health angle for pony rides.

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Rainy Day Birder

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With so much less at stake than them, I should probably just pony up for the SPF 150, or whatever is the strongest sunscreen they make now. Photo by Ben Carlisle, used under a Creative Commons share-alike license. Conversation with a non-birder: “Hey Chuk, what bird is that?

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Operation Nix-the-Petting-Zoo

Animal Person

Like a "BBQ, pony rides and a petting zoo!" When I started thinking about trying to get the association to cancel the pony rides and petting zoo (which are often part of one business as a quick Google search of " traveling petting zoo " will demonstrate), my several-year vegan husband said, "What's the use?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of September 2018)

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The birding mecca on my mind is Chincoteague NWR, renowned far and wide for avian profusion (and wild ponies!) Enjoying these locations over time allows us to experience our beloved birding sites in all their multifaceted glory, even when those facets aren’t exactly glorious.

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