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Friday, April 1, 2011 - Boulder Beach Campground, Boulder City NV

I'm off - that nest needs a few more sticks, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
I'm off - that nest needs a few more sticks, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011

Fuffy

What's with the fuffy beards? Most of heron pictures I'm getting show these long beard feathers, often puffed out in the presence of a mate. Is this a nesting display of some sort?

Night camp

Site 94 - Boulder Beach Campground, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Boulder City NV

Politics and the English Language

....Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase -- some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse -- into the dustbin, where it belongs.

George Orwell 1945

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