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Meeting folks, tying flies ? fun stuff! This past weekend I had more fun than I’d had in a month of Sundays. The good folks at Anglers XStream, a fly shop in Parkersburg, asked me and several other fly tiers to demonstrate the techniques we use to tie our favorite patterns. Some of the guys tied trout flies. Others tied bass or muskie flies. [...] A quick look at Backyard Bird Count totals My friend (and fellow Gazette columnist) Scott Shalaway, who also happens to be a respected authority on birds and birding, gave a summary of the 2010 Great Backyard Bird Count in his most recent column: The 2010 Great Backyard Bird Count is history, and the results are impressive. Over Presidents Day weekend in mid-February, North American [...] Now THAT?s an effective warning sign! Apparently anglers seeking access to one of the incomparable trout streams of New Zealand’s South Island had run afoul of some local livestock. Owners of a fly fishing lodge erected a warning sign that gets the message across in no uncertain terms. As Lt. Gen. George S. Patton so famously said: “If I want ‘em to remember it, I [...] It?s all fun and games until someone gets hurt Years ago, I watched in fascination as two immature bald eagles sparred in the air over Cabell County’s Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area. The two birds swooped toward each other, locked talons and tumbled toward the ground. Moments later, they disengaged, swooped upward to regain lost altitude, and did it all over again. This went on [...] After further review: ?Deer corn? article revisited This week’s column deals with a response I received to my Feb. 14 Sunday Gazette-Mail feature titled “Popping the corn myth,” which revealed how corn fed to deer could contain aflatoxin, a substance deadly to deer, turkeys and other creatures. At the end of last week’s column, I mentioned that someone had called to complain about [...]