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Grand River Brewery: 313 Polish Lager

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My good college friend Luke was originally from Poland and our friendship was fueled greatly by a shared interest in whatever esoteric music we fancied ourselves connoisseurs of at the time: Krautrock, obscure psychedelia, dub reggae, free jazz, etcetera.

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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A rutting Fallow buck, photographed in Norfolk, England Elk (or what the Americans call Moose) I’ve encountered several times in Scandinavia, Estonia and Poland. I’ve only seen European Bison in Poland, in the Bialoweiza Forest. The world’s biggest species of deer, they are curiously ugly but impressive animals.

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Finding Birds in Northern Greece by Dave Gosney

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Dave Gosney’s Finding Birds Series covers mostly the Western Palearctic and describes birding in various regions of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc., with some additions, namely South Texas, The Gambia, and Goa (India).

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Enjoying the Orange Peril

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I was placed one year with a photograph of little egrets, taken at Kerkini in Greece, while the following year I won the class with a shot of Wryneck, photographed in an orchard in Poland ( above ).

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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I’ve yet to see an English pine marten, but I once watched one hunting red squirrels in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland. Pine martens are making something of a comeback in the UK, helped by reintroductions, and are now established in the New Forest, in the southern county of Hampshire.

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Borderline of Countable

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Valentine’s Day , one of them visiting Poland and Germany in the meantime). It took me less than three minutes to find the otherwise rare Great Black-backed Gull among thousands of Mew and Common Black-headed Gulls (we saw two CBHGs that were ringed at the same landfill on this particular St.

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The Ruddy Shelduck Twitch

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Further north, in Poland, they used to write off all Ruddy Shelducks recorded, assuming they were escapees, until they found one ringed in Kazakhstan! Soon, I found three large ducks on the water, but as soon as I come closer, they took flight, like proper wild ducks. In the end, were they escapees, or the real McCoy?

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