article thumbnail

Tenet Wines: The Pundit Syrah (2016)

10,000 Birds

The Pundit is a 2016 Syrah from Tenet Wines , a collaborative brand between Ste. Whatever the story is, the bottle is adorned with an eye-catching portrait of an owl with gleaming yellow eyes. It looks like a small, eared owl, perhaps a screech or a scops.

2016 185
article thumbnail

7 Resolutions for Birding Costa Rica in 2021

10,000 Birds

Time is relative but the first day of the first month of a brand new year also acts as a good moment for making birding resolutions. Find Some Roosting Owls. I recall how western New York artist Betsy Potter found owls, one Saw-whet after another. A roosting Crested Owl at Rancho Naturalista. Do Some Raptor Counts.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Boston Brewing Company: Cold Snap

10,000 Birds

This week’s beer is from the Boston Beer Company – a brand much better known by the name it shares with its flagship product, Sam Adams. Sam Adams has been brewing Cold Snap as a late winter seasonal since 2014, but a packaging redesign of this year’s version places a ski-masked owl on the label. Especially when it has a bird on it.

Boston 100
article thumbnail

State of the Birds, Halloween Edition

10,000 Birds

Owls as a group, for instance, have gone from omens of doom to adorable hipster mascots – I blame J. Another traditionally trendsetting group of scary birds that have evolved past their original branding of late are the corvids. No one does the intersection of scary and ornithology better than me!

Birds 163
article thumbnail

The Birds of Washington, DC

10,000 Birds

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History boasts an entire collection of skins of birds native to the DC area, from large Bald Eagles to tiny Eastern Screech Owls. Throngs of people had lined up on the rainy Sunday to see the brand new dinosaur and fossil exhibit, and it did NOT disappoint.

DC 152
article thumbnail

The Devil Is In The D-Con

10,000 Birds

The photograph in local papers did not show the brand of poison, but the colors on the package were like those of D-Con. An owl who eats a rat poisoned by a farmer or a pest-control company will die the same death as one poisoned by a homeowner. Birds D-Con owls poison birds reckitt benckiser'

Rats 262
article thumbnail

Kiuchi Brewery: Hitachino Nest White Ale

10,000 Birds

That’s an awful lot of backstory without explaining the iconic and undeniably adorable owl logo for which Hitachino Nest is most famous. Hitachino Nest White Ale quickly became a cult favorite, and I’m glad to see it’s still around after all these years, still in the capable hand of the brewery that first created it.

Japan 100