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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

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Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Gone from nest for several hours.

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Pel’s Fishing Owls, Phantoms of the Okavango

10,000 Birds

We pour over photographs, read with envy the eye-witness accounts of the “lucky ones” and fabricate secret plans to abandon our loved ones and embark on expensive trips to track them down. Our Pel’s experience deep within the heart of the Okavango was unforgettable. What a beauty! What a place.

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Hermit Thrush Brewery: Party Guy

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In modern brewing, where malt is cheaper than time and labor, the convoluted parti-gyle process has mostly been abandoned for less tricky methods and the straightforward simplicity of making one beer from one mash. In this case, Party Guy is brewed in tandem with Hermit Thrush’s Jolly Abbot, a big, barrel-aged sour barleywine.

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