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Jim Stevenson is the Director of the Galveston Ornithological Society:www.galvestonbirders.org You may receive his recent bird pictures name suppressed in PDF form for free by writing him here [email protected]

My Take on “The Big Year”

by Jim Stevenson
Many people have asked me about this movie and Liz and I finally sat down and watched it Monday night. So, here are my thoughts, for what they’re worth…

First, it is an entertaining movie with big-name actors, good, clean humor and a relatively decent plot. For those reasons alone, I would recommend it for

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Brazos Bend State Park
by Jim Stevenson

American Coots are abundant winter residents on open lakes throughout the Deep South. As members of the rail family they are dense and too heavy to jump off the water into flight the way dabbling ducks can. So like other swimming birds with a high specific gravity, they must paddle across the water to

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