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Join a nationwide bird counting event without leaving home.
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How would you like to join others in an organized bird count without leaving home? Yes, you can!
Each year during the month of February, the National Audubon Society conducts The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). The event lasts four days. It’s fun, easy, and it shouldn’t cost you dime.
What are you doing this holiday season? You could be bird-watching!
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Maybe it's much too early in the game
Aah, but I thought I'd ask you just the same
What are you doing New Year's
New Year's Eve?
You could be bird-watching!
Enjoy bird-watching? Volunteer for an important survey.
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If you enjoy bird-watching, you might be interested in participating in the annual North American Breeding Bird Survey. The NBBS website states, “Each spring over 2500 skilled amateur birders and professional biologists volunteer to participate in the North American BBS.”
It's time to dig tender bulbs for storing over winter.
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Winter will be here before you know it. If you have tender bulbs in the ground, you’d better dig them soon to store indoors. They won’t survive freezing temperatures. Here's how.
If You Catch A Snakehead Fish, Kill It
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There's no gentle way to say this. If you catch a snakehead fish, kill it. That's the word put out on the street by the USDA and various state agencies.