Gadwall male Somerset Levels UK

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Portrait of a Kazakh eagle hunter and his bird. The close bond between hunter and eagle is palpable, and the birds appear to reciprocate the emotion. Although eagles can live for thirty years, the hunters keep each one for only about ten years, then release it to live out its last years in the wild. The bird is taken far away, and the hunter sometimes has to hide, or wait for darkness, to keep it from following him home. An old Kazakh hunter who recently released his bird was quoted as saying "I think about what that eagle is doing; if she’s safe, and whether she can find food and make a nest. Have her hunts been successful? Sometimes I dream about these things.”

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Appropriately named because I had to literally paddle through mud that felt like quicksand to get into the water with my kayak. There was bear tracks everywhere. I was excited as this was my first night to camp at this spot.

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