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Wyndridge Farm Cidery: Crafty Cranberry Hard Apple Cider

10,000 Birds

I’m not sure the cidermakers of Wyndridge Farm Cidery of Dallastown, Pennsylvania had any of this in mind when they chose a Cedar Waxwing to adorn the label of their Wyndridge Crafty Cranberry Hard Apple Cider. Wyndridge Farm Cidery: Crafty Cranberry Hard Apple Cider. Perhaps it’s only just getting started?

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Bird Migration and Conservation Meet at Selva Bananito, Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Check the nearest fruiting fig and you would be hard pressed not to find a few Red-eyed Vireos , Summer Tanagers , Baltimore Orioles , Swainson’s Thrushes , and a Scarlet Tanager or two. Selva Bananito was actually founded in the seventies but back then, it was a sizeable farm like any other.

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The Problem with Weight is NOT Losing It

4 The Love Of Animals

“The Problem with Weight is NOT Losing It&# (Raccoon Press) is available now through www.theproblemwithweightisnotlosingit.com. A resident of Bend, Oregon, McGee Bennett lives on a 10-acre farm with her husband, Brad, two dogs, two cats, five llamas, 11 alpacas, and super composting red wigglers, number unknown.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

10,000 Birds

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them. Well, this is actualy about birds too.

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Sea Snakes of Northern Australia

10,000 Birds

Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press ! Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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“Christmas in June” – Brasserie au Baron: Saint-Médard Cuvée de Noël

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In the English countryside, an elder tree rooted alongside a cottage or farm was thought to prevent lightning strikes, while in his De materia medica , the first-century Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides declared that drinking wine steeped with elderflowers counteracted snake venom. Good birding and happy drinking!

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Kermie

Animal Person

South Florida is home to the most racetracks and Greyhound farms and trainers in the country, and you can’t turn on the radio or the television without encountering a commercial for the tracks. When I informed Dave of what Emily and I were doing, he reminded me that some frogs are fatally poisonous to cats.