Remove Birds Remove Branding Remove Campaign Remove United States
article thumbnail

Tenet Wines: The Pundit Syrah (2016)

10,000 Birds

At the risk of yet again reinforcing our predictable North American slant at Booze and Birds, it has to be noted that this year’s United States presidential campaign season has certainly been an occasion for drinking, especially as we enter the final two weeks before the election. Good birding and happy drinking!

2016 181
article thumbnail

Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Last year I reviewed The Feather Thief , an enjoyable tale centering on the use of feathers in the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying, and how that led to the theft of priceless bird skins by one obsessed young man. Ironically, only the women of one of these campaigns, the suffragette movement, have been recognized and honored.

Industry 118
article thumbnail

The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

10,000 Birds

It’s my fantasy and it’s yours: Quit the job, say good-bye to the family, and bird. British birder Chris Gooddie, my new birding hero, not only dreamed the fantasy, he lived it. That’s Pitta, people, not Antpitta, which is what I foolishly first envisioned, having never birded beyond the Americas.)

Hunters 187