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Lights Out for Birds? Yes please

Captivating Animation Shows the Perils and Pitfalls of Long-Distance Migration Follow a small songbird making its way from tropical wintering grounds to northern forests. Along the route, intense city lights disorient it, and hundreds of windows clutter the sky. This heartfelt video makes it easier to grasp how up to a billion birds can succumb to building collisions every year in the U.S. alone. From now through mid-June, turn out nonessential lights at night to help migrating birds.

RIP Uncle Chet

My Uncle Chet and my Aunt Mary inherited Grandma Rose's cabin in Solon Springs, south of Superior, Wisconsin. I spent my childhood at the lake with them. He let me hold my first garden snake and took me berry picking. One time, he saved my life when I was stung in the face by hornets.  He was the best uncle on the planet. He was goofy, and really really silly at times which made him all the more loveable.

John Chester “J” McIntyre Sr.

Birth
Wisconsin, USA
Death
May 1974 (aged 67)
Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
Burial
Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
 
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Wife, my Aunt Mary

He also had two brothers: Archie and Malcolm.  And several sisters who I remember as kind and lovely. They were all Scottish and definitely Ojibwe.
 
Chet's son Pete is my godfather. 

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