Over 41 surveys since mid-May, I have seen over 500 scissor-tailed flycatchers and 41 loggerhead shrikes. These birds are found in similar habitat; it's clear that the shrikes are not very dense. About 1/4 of my shrike sample size has come from the last 3 weeks! The northern breeding populations head south below the 39th latitude. I still feel blessed by the Universe every time I spot the unmistakable masked head of the loggerhead shrike. There are still a few scissor tails hanging around, although most have begun the annual journey to Central America.
Meanwhile, our
lords of the dark leaders are busy
dismantling the Clean Air Act and further suppressing women's health care
choices, in the names of jobs and protecting life of course. Unless you are a breather and/or a woman, that is. Help me out here teabaggers, how exactly does tens of thousands more ill (or dead) people equal a better economy?
Apparently, the 19th and early 20th centuries were great times since our leaders, particularly on the right, are working hard to bring us backwards. The republicans have gone off the deep end. When Newt Gingrich is considered a moderate in the party, you know they have gone right of the right.
The daily actions of the GOP are morally indefensible.
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