A Big Year

October 2017

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October 2017

On the 'shorebird coast' near Miranda. Photo: Scott Brooks
What better way to get outside more often than to plan an entire year of bird watching. By Helen Arthurs We woke on the morning of January 1 to pouring rain. The only bird we’d see that day would be a half-drowned blackbird sheltering beneath our car on the driveway. “Look kids, a blackbird!” It […]
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