Jeff Rusinow

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Many decades ago, a homestead was established a few miles east of Melrose, New Mexico (about a 3 hour drive southeast of Albuquerque). The owners planted trees, like cottonwoods, not indigenous to the desert grasslands of this part of the country, and over the years, they grew and created this incredible bird migrant trap:

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This is one of those ‘perfect storm’ interactions that only someone like Jessie Ventura could pull off with Hannity. Ventura smackdown:

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The Justicia Best Boys performing after dinner at Singita Preserve, in the Sabi Sand of South Africa:

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I want to start posting random pics from my iPhoto.  This one was taken in Franschhoek, South Africa.

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Viewership on Meet The Press is down 25% since David Gregory has taken over, with the competition picking up the slack.  Here is the problem:  Tim Russert was a master of appearing to be in the middle.  99% of the time I was comfortable with his tone and ‘body english’ in his line of questioning, [...]

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Crescent-chested Warbler - YES! Only the 10th record in the United States, I located the bird this morning at the Pinery Campground in the Chiricahua Mountains near Portal, in southeastern Arizona. Fortunately, about 15 people who were all there looking for the bird were able to get good looks. This bird was [...]

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During spring migration, warblers and other passerines huddle up on the shores of Lake Erie in northwestern Ohio in large numbers, prior to them flying over the lake. I have always wanted to visit Crane Creek/Magee Marsh, and we finally did the past couple of days. Total of 22 species of warblers, 21 in [...]

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Not often you get this close to a bird that just became a lifer. We’ve been in Florida for the last five days, starting in Key West. On Wednesday took the boat to Ft. Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas and added three to my lifelist during the trip. Today in Palm Beach [...]

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