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Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - October 4, 2024

American Golden-Plover | Pacific Golden-Plover | Sabine’s Gull | Franklin’s Gull | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Little Blue Heron | Broad-winged Hawk | Zone-tailed Hawk | Great Crested Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | Gray Vireo | Grasshopper Sparrow | Clay-colored Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Bobolink | Baltimore Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | American Redstart | Palm Warbler | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Indigo Bunting | Painted Bunting

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Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - September 27, 2024

Pacific Golden-Plover | Little Blue Heron | Western Cattle Egret | Broad-winged Hawk | Eastern Kingbird | Least Flycatcher | “Black-backed” White Wagtail | Clay-colored Sparrow | Lark Bunting | Bobolink | Baltimore Oriole | Ovenbird | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | American Redstart | Northern Parula | TROPICAL PARULA | Blackburnian Warbler | Palm Warbler | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Dickcissel

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Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - September 20, 2024

Calliope Hummingbird | American Oystercatcher | Pacific Golden-Plover | Stilt Sandpiper | Franklin’s Gull | Little Blue Heron | Broad-winged Hawk | Purple Martin | “Black-backed” White Wagtail | Grasshopper Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Bobolink | Worm-eating Warbler | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Prothonotary Warbler | American Redstart | TROPICAL PARULA | Canada Warbler | Summer Tanager | Indigo Bunting

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Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - September 14, 2024

Hooded Merganser | White-winged Dove | Calliope Hummingbird | Pacific Golden-Plover | Red Knot | Stilt Sandpiper | Little Blue Heron | Western Cattle Egret | Merlin | Eastern Kingbird | Purple Martin | “Black-backed” White Wagtail | Lark Bunting | White-crowned Sparrow (dark-lored) | Baltimore Oriole | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | American Redstart | TROPICAL PARULA | Painted Bunting

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Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - September 7, 2024

White-winged Dove | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Pacific Golden-Plover | Red Knot | Stilt Sandpiper | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Common Tern | Little Blue Heron | Reddish Egret | Western Cattle Egret | Purple Martin | “Black-backed” White Wagtail | “Large-billed” Savannah Sparrow | Virginia’s Warbler | Northern Parula | TROPICAL PARULA | Blackburnian Warbler | Orchard Oriole

Eleanor Osgood

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Why We Pull Weeds

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Why We Pull Weeds

BY ELEANOR OSGOOD & ALAN STARBUCK

We both volunteer to weed in our public lands as part of a habitat restoration team which is coordinated by Eleanor. But we come to this unusual habit, obsession almost, with different impetuses: for Eleanor, bird watching; for Alan, hiking. We’d like to share with you our answers to the often-asked questions “You pull weeds? Really? Why?” in the hope that it will inspire you to join us, whatever your impetus may be. Here are our stories:

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