Monday, November 30, 2015

Top Ten List of Great Things about Turning Sixty-Four

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1) 64 is the same as 8², 4³, and 2⁶. No other age within a normal human lifespan reaches a sixth power. The only other age that reaches a fi...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

When I'm Sixty-Four

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Russ and I back when 64 seemed a long way off! On June 1, 1967, when the Beatles released “When I’m Sixty-Four” on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Snowy Owl Migration: More complicated than most people realize

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Healthy Snowy Owl seen outside Ashland, Wisconsin, in 2013 Whenever Snowy Owls appear in the Lower 48 States, people get excited. Sno...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Purple Gallinule in Duluth?!

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Duluth's own Purple Gallinule, photographed at Wildwoods Wildlife Rehabilitation Center On Friday, September 23, the nice people a...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Gray Jays: The Black Labs of the Bird World

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Last month, a catbird alighted on my dog Pip’s back, totally freaking out the little puppy. Lots of people thought the hilarity stemmed...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

Red-eyed Vireo: An almost-never-ending blog post to honor an almost-never-ending singer

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Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind ; Miss Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice ; Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables . Literatu...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

Snail Kites: The good news and the bad news

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My original Golden Guide showing the Everglade Kite When I started scrutinizing my field guides as a brand new birder, one of the birds...