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The Tar Side of Green Products

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This unhappy-looking tar baby is covered with a green, environmentally-friendly product called Tanglefoot. Normally it might not be a problem, but last October a farmer in upstate New York spread it on an apple tree so thickly that the product slid down the branches and pooled in the tree’s crotch. I’m not making this up.

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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

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The indoor workshop started with a Covid self-testing (where everyone was negative), followed by lectures on the Swarovski company, its ethos and products. And, expectedly, the advice was: you should significantly lower your prices and move production to Asia. You know that classical definition of what separates men from boys?

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Using The Meopta MeoPix iScoping Adapter – Digiscoping With Your iPhone

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Meopta has made the product that you need, the MeoPix iScoping adapter. In my case, I used the window of my car, as the location I used to test the product was the puddles in the parking lot at Big Egg Marsh in Queens. Look no further. Unless you have ice water in your veins you will probably need to do the same.

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Into the Clouds

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A productive morning, I thought. Flycatchers are some of the kindest birds to photograph, this Euler’s Flycatcher helped me test my camera settings. As the other members of the group dispersed in the pursuit of better looks at (supposedly) better birds, I began to utilize my tried-and-tested technique of the sit.

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The Devil Is In The D-Con

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One week later, Reckitt-Benckiser sued the state’s Department of Pesticide Control, saying it had “exposed California residents to heath risks” by not allowing the sale of products which could poison their children, pets and wildlife. There are no tests to diagnose it, either. Read that again: it has no antidote. Do we all feel better?

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Drones: The Next Thing Birders Will Be Arguing About

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Amazon had a brilliant press release on Cyber Monday 2013 about using drones as a possible delivery service for their products in the near future. It included a video that a production company took with a drone in our park’s corridor. Then an email went around my park from my fellow ranger Gordon that caught my attention.