Dacha Bird #148
Just added bird 148 at The Dacha: Western Meadowlark. (Note: I don’t have a pix of Western, this one’s an Eastern).
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Remember Your Empids ?
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Gulls in Corpus
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Night Flight Calls
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Quiz Bird 1
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