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Old Posted Apr 24, 2010, 6:49 PM
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nature shots from Israel




baby tortoise we found wandering in a garden



At the Hula Nature Reserve in northern Israel (which used to be a swamp, now drained for agriculture, which they now realize was an ecological mistake) they guesstimate a billion birds use the narrow Israeli flyway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Syrian desert to migrate between Europe, Asia and Africa.
We saw them catching birds in netting to record and band them.

This little birdie was in the process of being banded and sacrificed a few seconds of freedom to be photographed.



a bee eater showing its irridescent wing feathers



catch a bee eater and flip it on its back, and it just lies there, seemingly not with any distress

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