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Arrowood Farm Brewery: Bramble Farmhouse on Raspberries

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Our featured beer this week is Bramble, a dry-hopped farmhouse ale from the Arrowood Farm Brewery of Accord, New York, made with – as the name suggests – raspberries. Considering all that, it’s no small miracle that Arrowood Farm Brewery was able to spare enough local raspberries from the insatiable appetites of birds to make Bramble.

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Visit the Macaw Lodge in Costa Rica

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In the company of expert birding guides, the most serious birdwatchers will be able to start their journey before dawn, after enjoying an aromatic cup of coffee or chocolate produced on the farm itself.

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Summer Birding at Conboy Lake NWR

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I decided to walk Willard Springs trial , a two-mile loop that provides a nice sample of the various habitats on the refuge , including wet prairie, marsh, meadow, and pine forest. The namesake “lake” generally only exists when there is enough runoff during the spring, as the area was extensively modified for farming years ago.

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Birding in Place on Poas Volcano- What can You See?

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In common with so many other volcanoes, Poas also houses farms, people, and forests full of birds. These are a small sampling of the birds possible while birding in place on Poas. Poas Volcano isn’t just a mountain built with magma. Strawberries are grown year round, visit the area and young locals will let you know.

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A Near Conjunction

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Can they ascertain how profitable a specific tree would be by some sampling method? Some farming activity in the area meant that there had been some manner of clearing created. I never understood why some woodcreepers would check only a small area of one tree before flying off to another tree.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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Blackbirds and Song Thrushes were also problematic for fruit growers, but it was rabbits that quickly became enemy number one for the fledgling colony, as they striped the ground bare in farm after farm. Nonetheless, this week will be chock full of invasive species.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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The decline of farming, combined with reforestation across the region have been noted as potential reasons for decline. The sheer number of species that have been shuffled around on our big earth is impressive, though we will be dealing with the smaller sample size of invasive avians and other invasives that effect avians.

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