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Binocular snobbery

10,000 Birds

However, instead of rushing out to buy a brand new pair of bins, it was recommended that she bought herself a pair of secondhand Zeiss Dialyt 10×40, then the binocular of choice of most serious birders. We had met before, so when he encountered me in Austria he asked me what I was doing there.

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Haus Alpenz: The Scarlet Ibis – Trinidad Rum

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The fact that this label takes one of the most Day-glo-plumaged birds on the planet and recasts it as an elegant but restrained logo lets us know this is a more sophisticated tipple – not your usual liquor cabinet rum for glugging into the “Margaritaville”-branded blender full of crushed ice and frozen strawberries out by the cabana.

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