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Message: <blockquote data-quote="redeyedvideo" data-source="post: 1654433" data-attributes="member: 18004">Doesn't Atkins give you bad breath? I didn't notice when you were giving me advice on Pine Martens at Resipole when we were waiting for the Polecats to show. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />I should feel guilty being a veggy with all those fields full of pizza, pasta and mushrooms when they could be growing barley. B <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Really? That's the best reason I've heard for not mowing the lawn again, wish I'd known that in the summer. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Here's a video of a Great Northern Diver avoiding being caught up in a <a href="http://surfbirds.com/video2/view_video.php?viewkey=d1345dd8fe4e481144d8&page=1&viewtype=&category=mr" target="_blank">duck shoot</a>.The hunters blast Mallards and anything else that happens to fly by out of the sky. Seeing Goosander in the middle of a gravel pit in May with half a wing is not a great sight when it should have departed with the rest of the flock.</blockquote>

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