Word: birding
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...long ago, in a shanty on the Blue Bird range, Montana, there lived an ancient, Billy Martin, with a tobacco-stained beard, drawing out his days as caretaker of a disused copper mine. He was full of stories about the great days of the silver rush at Virginia City; of how he had drunk and gambled away his takings; about how his partner, Billy Clark, had been more sensible, saved his metal, gone into politics, retired as one of the country's wealthiest men with money to burn "down East" on rich living, art and suchlike...
...barn one afternoon last week to observe the erratic flight of an airplane coming along low over the fields from the windy northwest. It was swerving and teetering as if its courage were buffeted away. Two small pieces fell from it. It twirled reluctantly, then dropped like a shot bird. Farmer Letendre extricated from the wreck the remains of Pilot Elmer Lee Partridge. Partridge had just left Minneapolis on the inaugural southbound trip of an air mail service between there and Chicago.* Three of the five other pilots flying the new route that day were blown astray. Partridge is believed...
...Refused to apply cloture to end debate on a bill for creating migratory bird refuges. The vote was for cloture, 46 against 33, failing seven votes of the necessary two-thirds...
...freckles golden as hers, no girl so jimp a leg. Once she had spent the night with Tom Sawyer in a haunted cave. . . . The old lady chuckled and bobbed her bonnet; she rubbed one eye until it was clear and glanced sharply from side to side like a bird. Let the people stare at her if they wanted to- let them think she was crazy; she'd never tell. Why should she? They'd never believe her. Sam wouldn't know her now-teeth all gone, face wrinkled, hand turned brown. Let them look...
...everyone knows, the eagle is a bird more remarkable for vigor than sagacity. This was again proved when the little steamer Sulanierco recently sailed away from Porto Pico followed by a huge black and white eagle soaring high above her wake, disdaining to swoop for scraps thrown by the cook unless they consisted solely of meat...