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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Birds
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Pelicans coasting up and down on the air currents, as graceful as anything that flies. Watching them reminds me to relax and lighten up. They seem to know that life is meant to be enjoyed and that there's time enough for the important things, and that play is one of those important…
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Thanks, my peeps! Two suggestions… you guys aren't funny, so I'm off to find some funny birds Downtown is this way….no, it's that way…you're both wrong…and I want to go to a *big box store anyway… *Name of the big box store withheld for some reason… …
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When the fish are running in seaside towns, the word spreads quickly. Some years ago, a close encounter with Hurricane Floyd, stirred up the surf and the fish and our restless spirits on Cape Cod. Here's hoping that all of our friends in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, are safe and…
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Spread your wings in the sun, a good way to become buoyant again!
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"I know I'm forgetting something, what is it?"
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A pale pink feather, found on the beach is surely from a Roseate Spoonbill. These strange and beautiful birds are often mistaken for flamingos until you get a clear view of the spoon shaped bill. In sunset light their color is exquisite, as it is against a clear blue sky when…
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Don't be late!
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I once saw a cormorant catch a fish that was so large it almost sank her. Somehow she managed to swallow it, and was very still and low in the water for a long long time. She didn't have to eat another thing for a week! Double Crested Cormorant,…
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Just a short bridge across the river. Easy going from shore to shore. Without it, how to cross? Swim? Boat? Pelican? Are you a bridge? Have you helped a friend get from here to there across troubled waters? Has someone been there for you? Perhaps everyone is a bridge, at one…
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