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Birding Fallon: Well Worth the Trip

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The festival is now in its 16 th year in the quaint-yet-vibrant town of Fallon, Nevada (about an hour east of Reno), and it draws on the wide array of birds that flock to the area during spring migration. The town is actually nicknamed “The Oasis of Nevada.”) Yellow-headed Blackbird was another lifer for me, and omnipresent.

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“One for the crow”: Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017)

10,000 Birds

Doubtless it’s a very old saying and the details can vary according to time and place: sometimes one of the larcenous birds is a blackbird rather than a rook, or a mouse is blamed instead, and in other accounts, it’s the lowly cutworm that’s accused of theft. Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017). Birds and Booze News.