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SF; born in Motown. Birder, native plant enthusiast, all-purpose enviro. Namesake is Red-shouldered Hawk, aka Buteo lineatus (lin ay ah tus)
Groups: Pink Clubhouse, Environmental Foodies, Photography, IGTNT Advisory Group, SFKossacks, Birds and Birdwatching, Daily Kos Photo Cooperative, Netroots For The Troops®, Progressive Friends of the Library Newsletter, Volunteering for a Better World, Cranky Grammarians, Headwaters, Bending the Buzz, Motor City Kossacks, Backyard Bird Racers, Climate Action Hub
Diaries published: 273 (491 days since last diary on Fri Aug 21, 2015 at 06:42 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 42286 (0 days since last comment on Sat Dec 24, 2016 at 08:33 AM PST)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 15875
Total Comment Ratings: 223647
Most Recommended Diary: realalaskan - Bad News from Sitka, 92 comments, 467 recommends
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I woke up to this email today:
Dear [ lineatus ],
I'm Sasha Stortz, and William Stortz, realaskan, is my dad. You may have seen in the news that Sitka, AK, our home, has been hit by some bad ...
by lineatus
 92 comments
on Fri Aug 21, 2015 at 06:42 AM PDT
with 467 Recommends
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Okay, actually, no profit to be made from gull ID as far as I know. But if it's possible to tilt the meter from pure aggravation toward fun, that would be something.
I've been trying to work on ...
by lineatus
 39 comments
on Sun May 03, 2015 at 06:00 AM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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Spring is sprung, the grass is riz - I wonder where the birdies iz?
Bolinaz!
by lineatus
62 comments
on Sun Apr 26, 2015 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Pull up a comfy chair and join us for brunch, now that there's a diary.
by lineatus
29 comments
on Sun Apr 19, 2015 at 06:02 AM PDT
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... except sometimes birds gotta dive, and then the fish gotta fly, ever so briefly.
Can't help lovin' that man o' mine...
Because, really, who doesn't love an osprey? Other than anything with ...
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on Sun Mar 15, 2015 at 06:00 AM PDT
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To everything... turn, turn, turn.
Tern, tern, tern?
There is a season... turn, turn, turn.
Everything has a life cycle. Dawn Chorus is entering a new phase in its cycle.
by lineatus
63 comments
on Sun Jan 04, 2015 at 06:00 AM PST
with 58 Recommends
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- If any other transition team were querying government departments for the kind of information the Trumplodytes have been seeking, few people would be uptight about it. But there are plenty of reasons to shudder when these are the guys doing the asking....97 comments 146 Recs
- Lawyers for Standing Rock Water Protectors who have been arrested in North Dakota for their activist opposition to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through ancestral Sioux lands are pleading for more help because there aren’t enough...60 comments 122 Recs
- On a cold, windy, late October day B-3930 was released into the air of a wildlife refuge near Boise Idaho. This was a late start in bad weather for a monarch butterfly who needed to travel southwest to California’s overwintering habitat. But...126 comments 174 Recs
- Please join us on January 21, 2017, at the Women’s March on NYC. Through my college, the School of Visual Arts, who is a sponsor of the event, we are extending an invitation to other groups/people who would like to be a part of our ‘gang’ and bring...158 comments 122 Recs
- The following anecdote was just posted on Facebook by an old high school friend of mine...who, as it happens, I hadn’t actually had contact with since high school until during my recent ill-fated County Commissioner campaign (he turned out to be...209 comments 766 Recs
- On MSNBC right now, so no link. The Army Corps of Engineers has denied the easement to allow the Dakota Access Pipeline to pass through the Sioux reservation. On MSNBC you can hear celebrations beginning: drums being beaten, songs being sung. ...16 comments 34 Recs
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- Some montane songbirds have defied expectations about how animals respond to warming temperatures. E cologists hypothesized plant and animal populations would try to stay within their natural ...100 comments 75 Recs
- Today is the 152nd anniversary of one of the best known of scores of mass killings of Indians in the history of North America—the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho on the eastern plains of what is now Colorado. Earlier today, Winter Rabbit...53 comments 176 Recs
- I cannot believe this diary has gotten recommended. This has always been a Democratic blog, with the primary purpose of electing Democrats. This has always been a big tent for people of all walks of life who believe in the dignity of all humanity, the...1047 comments 320 Recs
lineatus's Blogroll
- Crooks and Liars
- Contact US Senators
- Contact US Reps
- Bird Light Wind
- A World of Birds
- Slate Creek Press (shameless self-promotion)
- Charlie Pierce
- Joe Morlan's California Birding Pages
- Mercenary Ornithology (Lynn Schofield)
- Save Panoche Valley
- Public Campaign (money and politics)
- Los Farallones
- Chart Porn
- CA Senate Dem Contacts (by Seneca Doane)
- Coffee & Conservation
