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The variety of bird species who visit my feeders is about the most variety that happens in my life. I mostly stay home here at�Appy Trails Ranch, other than the short trips that make up my birding ...
by Appy
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on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Good day and welcome to � DKos Asheville . This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for � Sunday, February 4th, 2023.
This space appears each weekend to give readers a variety of links to ...
by randallt
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on Sat Feb 04, 2023 at 11:27 AM PST
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Freshwater, salt water, take your pick.
freshwater turtles may be called terrapins.
by strawbale
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on Sun Feb 05, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
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When I drove down to Orange County to visit family for Thanksgiving, I blew my engine going up the notoriously long steep Grapevine Grade on Interstate 5. I ended spending an extra week with family ...
by cal birdbrain
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on Mon Dec 05, 2022 at 12:33 PM PST
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Something of a feel-good story. At least as far as it goes. My wife and I had a chance to visit Punalu’u Black Sands beach in Hawaii. This is one of the last refuges of the endangered Green Sea ...
by backwoodsbob
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on Mon Oct 03, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The photos I shared in my Daily Bucket of part one of “Granny’s visitors” (www.dailykos.com/...) were from a special place nearby. Granny always had lots of wildlife visitors and I was always jealous. That Bucket was just a sampling. Thanks to the two...
by azureazule
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on Sat Jun 25, 2022 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Gray Lodge Wildlife Area is large wildlife refuge in the Sacramento Valley that hosts thousands of winter migratory waterfowl. On my latest visit, we saw substantially fewer snow geese, but there were lots of ducks and shorebirds. We saw lots of...
by cal birdbrain
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on Sat Jan 22, 2022 at 08:13 AM PST
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This Aquarium used to be located right on the sponge docks in a quite small building. A few years ago they moved to a larger property, and just re-opened this past summer. It’s much bigger now. ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Wed Nov 24, 2021 at 01:00 PM PST
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Welcome back to the odd and whimsical poetery of the Peeps related to holidaze! Let’s investigate what today is , because we need all the holidaze we can celebrate, right? Lately, every day ...
by elenacarlena
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on Tue Jun 16, 2020 at 07:38 PM PDT
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This is a very nice park right next to the zoo and the science museum. It’s a great place to have a picnic lunch, and there are lots of critters to see.
Some photos from an afternoon walking ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Sat Jan 18, 2020 at 06:48 AM PST
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PWB Peeps: Toosdai Evening: Serious Ogden Nash (and Other) Poetry for Today, October 1, Illustrated! Welp, it is Toosdai and so it is the day for some srs mischiefery with a mashery of Ogden Nashery (illustrated)! Let’s see what today is and if we have Ogden’s poetry to cover it… ...
by elenacarlena
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on Tue Oct 01, 2019 at 07:00 PM PDT
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June 2019 — One more reason to dislike 9-banded Armadillos, and yes I am guessing here, but it’s likely an armadillo got to this small turtle. Look around the edges where the shell was gnawed. Armadillos have 90-something teeth so I guess they could do...
by PHScott
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on Sun Jun 23, 2019 at 08:30 AM PDT
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We have to laugh where we can people. I think this video of McTurtle is perfect.
The man is terrified and in hiding. We may need to put his face on a milk carton.
Where’s Mitch
by Vetwife
9 comments
on Sat Jan 19, 2019 at 02:34 PM PST
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Some photos from an afternoon walk along the Colorado River in Austin TX.
The river
Tent ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Sat Nov 10, 2018 at 07:00 AM PST
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A couple days ago I was eating lunch outside a Walmart parking lot when I heard something rattling against a chainlink fence nearby. Turned out to be a Painted Turtle who somehow had gotten onto ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Sun Aug 12, 2018 at 07:04 AM PDT
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It’s Moondai! Let’s continue our mischiefery with the mashery of Ogden Nashery !
One from One Leaves Two
Mumbledy pumbledy, my red cow,
She’s cooperating now.
At first she didn’t ...
by elenacarlena
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on Mon Jul 16, 2018 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Tomorrow is World Turtle Day. Sponsored by American Tortoise Rescue since 2000, its purpose is to help people celebrate tortoises and turtles and protect them and their habitats.
From the very ...
by strawbale
24 comments
on Tue May 22, 2018 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Photos from the Conodoquient Creek in Camp Hill PA on July 31st.
Thirty years ago Camp Hill in Central Pennsylvania was overwhelmingly Republican. At a recent Camp Hill Democratic meeting with candidates for this year’s candidates it was...
by CA148 NEWS
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on Sun Aug 06, 2017 at 10:20 PM PDT
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HuffPo snagged an exclusive with a Galápagos Tortoise about errant bloggers (including myself) who have commented on his resemblance to the face of Republican evil, Mitch McConnell, and boy, is he pissed.
“We would never do something as heinous...
by durrati
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on Sat Jun 24, 2017 at 09:50 AM PDT
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This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. Today's suggested topic is open to whatever is on your mind. Last week I visited the Oakland Museum. Our guide was ...
by linkage
7 comments
on Mon May 15, 2017 at 01:03 PM PDT
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