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Fixing a Hole: The Gray-Crowned Rosy-Finch Saga Begins

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The Gray-crowned Rosy Finch , when she abandons her breeding grounds, prefers to forage on the ground, similar to (and sometimes in company with) Snow Buntings, Horned Larks , and Longspurs. Some finches flock conveniently to feeders: House Finches, Purple Finches, Goldfinches of all types, and for the fortunate, Evening Grosbeaks.

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Finally. Jasmine the Greyhound

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It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a Greyhound female, to the nearby Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, run by a man named Geoff Grewcock and known as a willing haven for Animals abandoned, orphaned or otherwise in need. And one roe deer fawn.