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Friday, April 16, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Western Kingbird, San Antonio NM, April 15, 2010
Western Kingbird, San Antonio NM, April 15, 2010

Darn those pesky photographers

I managed to annoy this Western Kingbird and a Say's Phoebe yesterday morning. They were out hunting up a few insects for breakfast and had to keep hop-scotching their way down the fence-line to keep a comfortable distance between us. It was more fun for me than for them I'm sure.

Night camp

Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

Sell Them Down the River

Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...

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