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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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This all came back to me as I read Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure because author Susan Fox Rogers was one of the two birders to find the Ames Henslow’s Sparrow. by Susan Fox Rogers. Three Hills/Cornell University Press, April 2022. Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure. ISBN-10 ? : ? 1501762249; ISBN-13 ? : ?

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Wyndridge Farm Cidery: Crafty Cranberry Hard Apple Cider

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But Wyndridge produces three other cider varieties, each labeled with an equally dapper rabbit, red fox, or cat – species I hardly associate with intoxicating inclinations, so I suspect the waxwing label wasn’t a comment on the occasional excesses of this species. Perhaps it’s only just getting started?

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Mexican Senators Look at Banning Bullfights

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From Fox News (blech). Bullfights seem really thoughtless and savage to me," the senator said in a press conference on Monday. I'm very, very surprised. And not very optimistic. Mexico is notorious for its bullfights and lack of animal rights. But, still, I can't dismiss it.

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Owls or Microwaves?

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Also present along the north and south entrance roads were Song , White-throated and Fox Sparrows , the usual host of American Crows , and a sluggish, unresponsive American Robin. Not exactly good owling weather but we pressed on anyway. We found icterids, but in much-reduced numbers. No toot-toot-tooting Saw-whets.

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Montezuma Winery: Red Wing

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American grapes are also known as “slip-skinned” fruits, prone to coming loose from their skins quite easily, meaning that few tannins are extracted during pressing. After Alexander’s happy accident, other hybrids followed, and a nascent American wine industry was born.

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Activists in Mexico Bomb Max Mara Store

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It was not a whim or an attempt to get attention, as the sensationalist press will say; instead this is a response to the domination, objectification and commodification of millions of animals (mink, chinchilla, fox, raccoons, etc.) The explosion that damaged the facade of the store was not a coincidence.

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