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Sand Point Family Vineyards: Cabernet Sauvignon (2015 Lodi Appellation)

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I saw my first in Utah back in 2010 right around the time I first started birding but didn’t see one in California proper until a visit to Point Reyes National Seashore in October of last year. Sand Point Family Vineyards: Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 (Lodi Appellation). One wonders how they ever find the time to make wine!

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of July 2021)

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My family’s walk through Rochester’s historic Mt. But everything else paled in comparison to his first Black-bellied Whistling-Duck in Queens since 2010. We just endured the warmest June on record, which may well turn out to be the coolest June we’ll see in a long time. How about you?

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A Pied Oystercatcher family

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In 2010 they also laid two clutches of two eggs and the second clutch did hatch, but the chicks were then predated. The eggs remained there for the whole season and we presume that they were young and inexperienced. In 2009 they laid two clutches of two eggs, but they were all predated.

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Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon 2010

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Just look at this adorable surf dog: Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon is a great family day at the beach for surfers and dog lovers alike. Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon 2010 originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 21, 2010. If you want to see all the great photos from the event, be sure to visit the Surf-A-Thon photo gallery.

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Hang your hammock in the hummingbird family tree

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Hummingbirds have long been classified as most closely related to the widespread, well-known swifts and the treeswifts , a small, predominantly Indomalayan family. As for the hummingbirds themselves, distinctive as the group is, the relationships within the large hummingbird family have been quite difficult to unravel.

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Pied Oystercatcher breeding season is here again!

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The eggs hatched out around 20th June after 28 days of incubation and the Pied Oystercatcher family were soon on the move. This moves the family closer to a reef that gets exposed on low tides and better feeding opportunities. Usually the first thing we look for when we visit Pied Oystercatcher families is look for footprints.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. While these groups were once considered two orders (Caprimulgiformes and Apodiformes), recent work (summarized in Mayr 2010 ) shows that swifts and hummingbirds emerged from within the night birds. In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.

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