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Read my new book, The 10 Best Things You Can Do For Your Bird at Amazon or at many other fine distributors like Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, and more.
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By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets.
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A bibliography of my published books and stories.
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Here's a simple card-counting FAQ to get you up to speed on the basics. Here's the true story of the notorious DD' blackjack team, told for the first time on the fabulous internets. No other team went from a starting investor's bankroll of zero to winning millions of dollars. |
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A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!!
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates
on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit
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My Bird Lists -- My Louisiana State Life List, My Yard List and, tah dah, My World Life List.
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HEY! What happened to the Peachfront Conure Files? The world's only OFFICIAL Peachfront Conure site now features free peachfront conure coverage, including
a magazine length Intro to Conures previously published in American Cage-Bird Magazine, now free on the web. I offer the best free Peachfront Conure information on the internet. If you have great Peachfront Conure info, stories, or photos to share, contact me so I can publicize your pet, your breeding success, your great photograph, etc. on my site. Thanks.
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drenched at the devil's throat
2013-01-14 - 4:03 a.m.
all photos � 2013 by elaine radford
Jan. 9, 2012 A very early start long before dawn to seek out the Collared
and/or Barred Forest Falcon. We dipped on those birds, but we easily located Common
Potoo and Chestnut-Eared Nighthawk. In the case of the nighthawk, you could
even say that they found us.
At breakfast, a Gilded Hummingbird flew into the window glass and sat back
stunned on the path. Poor baby. I went out to help him, so that he wouldn't get stepped
on, and he gripped firmly to perch on my hand but couldn't figure out that I wanted him to
perch on a bush. Finally, I put him on a safe niche in the window frame, where he rested
until he was up to flying away under his own steam.
Rather tough birding at the raptor watch point near the entrance to Igauzu Fall state
park, but we saw a nice flock of migrating Swallow-tailed Kites as well as our first
migrating/moving Snail Kites. Spectacular view of Iguazu Falls and the Devil's
Throat in the afternoon. Apparently, the claim is made that Niagara Falls moves more
water, but I find it difficult to believe. In fact, I don't believe it. Iguazu Falls is
definitely larger, or at least it was today, after the big storm...Who am I going to
believe, der Google or my own lying eyes? I don't know if it's exactly a state secret
but let's just say that someone on the trip used to live near the falls and entertained us
with stories of how he used to slip in before the park opened to enjoy the show in peace
and quiet. There are no real words to describe what we saw, and even a photo won't really tell the tale, so you will simply have to visit and see for yourself. Other new trip birds seen today: - Magpie
Tanager
- House Wren
- Yellow-headed Caracara
- Southern
Lapwing
- Turkey Vulture
- Blue Dacnis
- Saffron Finch
- Sayaca
Tanager
- Osprey with fish
- Red Rumped Cacique
- Campo
Flicker
- Chopi Blackbird
- Variegated
Flycatcher
- Anhinga
- Great Egret
- Short Tailed Hawk
- Neotropical Cormorant
- Blue-Winged
Parrotlet
- Squirrel Cuckoo
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