How many wild birds?

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birds

There are 50 billion wild birds in our world, including 1.6 billion sparrows. I didn’t know this. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57150571

Mask Burning Party!

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covid

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has amended its guidance for fully vaccinated Americans, no longer recommending masks indoors or outdoors, including in crowds, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced at a White House briefing Thursday.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fully-vaccinated-americans-return-life-masks-cdc/story?id=77665771

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Blacks killing Blacks

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BLM, race, violent crime

“Over 90 percent of black homicide victims were killed by another black person, not by the white supremacists or cops the media warns us about.

In 2020, 290 black people were murdered and over 1,000 were shot, almost all by other black people. By comparison, only five of the 20 years of the Afghan war killed more Americans of all races. In further comparison, in 2020 five of the people killed by New York City police were black.

You have to wonder which pile of bodies is really the distraction and which is really the more serious problem. This is what a systemic problem actually looks like.”

Link: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-black-deaths-nobody-wants-to-discuss/

If the BLM organization and leadership, and their corporate and democrat supporters really cared about black victims of violent crime then this would be their focus.

Hawks

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swainson's hawk in flight, swainsons hawk

Some Swainson’s hawk photos. A rare (for my area) light morph bird, and one “hawking” on a light fixture at the Prescott High School baseball field.

Light morph Swainson’s hawk in flight.

Dark morph Swainson’s hawk, this coloration is what I generally see.

“Hawking” from a light fixture

About to take off

And it’s flying

Carnival!

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carnival, carnival rides, night photography

We went to the carnival at Prescott Valley last night. Here are some night images.