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Little Big Year Week 33: Yellowstone

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Last week we were in the Teton Valley, getting ready to head over to Wyoming, and Yellowstone National Park. After leaving Yellowstone NP, we drove to Cody, Wyoming wanting to visit the Cody Western Museum, as well as hit a couple of bird sites. Our last night in Wyoming was spent at the historic Terry Bison Ranch.

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Snowy Owls Can Fly!

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It was Shawn’s first of the year, Wyoming student that he is, so we were in no rush to move on. I’m sure you’ve seen 1,000 images remarkably similar to this in the last couple of weeks. We just stood there watching the bird for awhile in the early morning light.

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448 Great Things to do in Nature

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Ken Keffer was born and raised in Wyoming. As editor of Birds & Blooms magazine, she is able to share her love of backyard nature with others. stacy loves gardening (especially growing veggies) and she is a master gardener in Milwaukee where she teaches youth gardening in the community.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

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(Inexplicably, eBird does not consider Puerto Rico part of the United States, but if it were properly included , it would do well, with 107 species.).

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The “Birds” in the Brush

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One species, the Wyoming ground squirrel, spends only about three hours a day above the surface of the earth, and that only on days during the four months of the year when they are not hibernating. Almost the only universal thing that can be said about the ground squirrels is that they live on, and in, the ground.

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The Popular Barn Swallow

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Chicks in nest in Wyoming. From pictures I saw, I thought a nest built using mud and looking like bricks neatly stacked was rather unique. But, seeing a actual barn swallow nest would imply either going to central Argentina or travel to northern latitudes during the breeding season. Photo: Alfredo Begazo.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016

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I saw a very nice male Western Tanager while I was in Wyoming this summer but the relatively drab bird I saw in City Hall Park made the list and the one in Wyoming didn’t. Western Tanager , 27 November, City Hall Park, Manhattan, New York. What gives?

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