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Vive la France!

10,000 Birds

Then… …on December 30th 2012, at Les-Baux-de-Provence in France, I finally nailed that little sucker. Famous for this one: The WALLCREEPER ! Vive la France! Just to be fooled again. The famous south-facing cliff below the castle ruins.

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“The Lark Ascending” – Domaine de la Chanteleuserie: Cuvée Alouettes (2017)

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The song of the skylark is also heard across the Channel in France, where the bird is known as the alouette of children’s song fame. Our wine for this week is the 2017 Cuvée Alouettes from Domaine de la Chanteleuserie, a single varietal-wine made from Cabernet Franc, a black grape known locally in the Loire Valley as Cabernet Breton.

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“FedEx Panda Express” Brings Giant Pandas to France

4 The Love Of Animals

Two giant pandas made their way from China to ZooParc de Beauval in France today. The pandas, three year old female Huan Huan and three year old male panda Yuan Zi, will be the first giant pandas in more than 10 years to be in France.

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France's Ugly Secret: Eating Endangered Songbird

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Now France can add another to its long list of gastronomic sins.eating ortolan, an endangered songbird. The hunting and selling of ortolans, which have suffered a Europe-wide decline of 40-50% in the last 40 years, has been illegal in France since 1999. Tags: poaching france endangered species. From the Guardian.

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Domaines Paul Mas ‘Vignes de Nicole’ Cabernet Sauvignon – Syrah (2018)

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According to legend, Vinus the heron frequented the clay and limestone hills of the Hérault Valley in the Languedoc region of France, where he preferred dining on grapes grown on the hillside to fish fetched from the river.

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

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In France, the proverb is “ Quand il pleut à la Saint-Médard, il pleut quarante jours plus tard ” which is more or less equivalent to the traditional English saying: St Swithin’s day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain. The earliest parts of the church date to the Anglo-Saxon era. Redouté, 7 vols. 1800 – 1819).

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La Vieille Ferme: Rouge (2016)

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But is there a bird more emblematic of France than the humble – yet decidedly exotic – farmyard chicken? Introduced, exotic, possibly ship-assisted Red Junglefowl can be found all across France. and was undoubtedly found in what would become France by the Roman period. So I survived. Good birding and drinking!

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