![]() ![]() We understand flies can be vectors of disease and a serious problem for farm animals. Songbirds, especially parent birds working extra hard to find a meal during the breeding season, are attracted to the insects that accumulate on sticky fly traps and seeds used to bait sticky rat traps. When placed outdoors, these cruel devices can and do entrap songbirds, often resulting in death. Please don't use sticky traps to control fly and rodent problems. If you're committed to using a birdfeeder, please see our Songbird Safe Bird-feeding Guidelines. We highly recommend planting native plants to attract and sustain native songbirds. It is unfair to lure songbirds into an artificial feeding situation that puts their lives at risk. If your birdfeeder is attracting the attention of predators, please remove the feeder. Both species predate songbird nests during the breeding season.īirdfeeders cause an unnatural number of birds to congegrate, which can lead to unnatural predation of songbirds by non-native predators, such as free-roaming cats, as well as native predators, such as hawks. Feeders and spilled seed on the ground attracts rats and other nuisance wildlife, such as raccoons. Wet seed in the feeder can grow mold and dangerous bacteria that make birds sick. For the birds, a convenient meal at the feeder comes with significant risk.ĭirty unmaintained feeders can spread diseases, such as avian pox and salmonellosis, among your avian neighbors if you're not careful. Watching birds at the feeders can provide hours of enjoyment, but it feeding birds comes with responsibility. There are risks and rewards when using birdfeeders to attract songbirds your backyard. Learn how you can reduce light pollution at home and in your community! Here’s the good news: Light pollution is completely reversible. The negative impacts of light pollution affect almost every ecosystem on Earth, including fish, nesting sea turtles, coral reefs, bats, plants, insects, and even humans. Artificial light also kills the food they need most - insects! Light pollution is a significant contributing factor in the global decline of insects. Artificial lights can cause them to migrate too early or too late and miss ideal climate conditions for nesting, foraging and other behaviors. Migratory birds also depend on cues from properly timed seasonal schedules. Every year millions of birds in the US die as they’re drawn into these nocturnal landscapes, become disoriented and collide with needlessly illuminated buildings and towers. Artificial light interferes with those navigational tools and causes birds to wander off course and toward dangerous nighttime landscapes of cities. Songbirds that migrate at night use a variety of tools to navigate their journey, including moonlight and the stars. Light pollution is harmful to migratory songbirds. Please do not hesitate to call or email us if you have any questions, or need advice about how to help the songbirds where you live. Following are helpful tips to support native songbirds. If we are thoughtful and consider the needs and habits of our feathered neighbors, communities can work together to keep songbirds safe. However, life on earth with humans is a reality, so it’s up to us to reduce our impact on the natural world. In a perfect world, our human activities wouldn’t come into conflict with wildlife, and songbirds could live freely without the worry of their homes being destroyed by chainsaws or their young killed by a free-roaming cat. The majority of our patients are received April through August, the peak of the breeding season, and most of them are brought to us because of an anthropogenic incident – human caused. Whatever the cause for their decline, songbirds need our help now more than ever.Įach year Native Songbird Care & Conservation cares for hundreds of songbirds, from robins and wrens to swallows and swifts. Some declines are due to habitat loss on their breeding grounds or on their wintering grounds, some are the result of collisions with windows or predation by free-roaming cats, and others are in decline due to pesticide use or changes in their environment resulting from climate change. Songbird populations of many species are in decline throughout North America. Songbirds also provide valuable services to the ecosystems they inhabit and to humans by dispersing seeds, pollinating plants and consuming copious amounts of insects. They bring joy to our gardens and wild areas and leave us in awe as they dazzle us with their beauty and grace. Songbirds are some of the most beautiful and observable wildlife that share our earth.
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Both alcoholic and non alcoholic substitutes for cognac are available, and each one has a unique effect on the flavor of a dish or drink. ![]() Luckily, there are many ways to make up for not having this spirit. However, this is not something you may have on hand, and as expensive as it is, buying some for a one-off recipe is not always an option. Sadly, almost all other options are noticeably more expensive than laird's and not equally better in quality/experience.Many recipes for drinks and dishes call for the use of cognac. George and Copper & Kings both have national distribution and make great products. There are many regional producers doing reasonable jobs as well, like Huber, J Carver and Great Lakes in the Mid-West, Hudson Valley and Neversink in NYS. Unfortunately, the further away from the Mid-Atlantic we get, the harder Laird's is to source. It is still far more affordable than other producers' much younger offerings. For Old Fashioneds and Manhattan-like cocktails, the 7½ year Old Apple Brandy is a treat. I don't know of a better bang-for-the-buck than Laird's Straight Applejack 86, however.įor mixing purposes, I recommend their Applejack 86 or Bottled-in-Bond. Of course, many more options have appeared over the last 10-15 years. It is also the only one you should avoid. Out of the 7 products they make, Laird's Blended Applejack is the only bottle not 100% pure apple brandy. It's production method is different from the well-known Calvados.īack in the 70s, Laird's, the last surviving American apple brandy distiller and first licensed distillery in the country, petitioned the US government to allow them to make a blended product to compete in the trends of lighter, un(der)aged spirits. Laird's also makes longer aged 80 proof straight apple brandies and an unaged eau de vie they call "Jersey Lightning", but I haven't been able to try those yet.Īpplejack is simply the nickname given to American apple brandy. The 100 proof is probably the best for cocktails, but the 86 proof is also very good, and even the 80 proof blended product is still radically better than any artificially flavored apple spirit I've ever tasted. In the last few years, they've split the difference and added 86 proof "straight Applejack" which is 100% apple brandy with no neutral grain spirits, but it's lower proof and less aged so it's less expensive and easier for them to produce in larger quantities. They've also for a long time made a "Straight Apple Brandy" that's 100 proof 100% apple brandy with no neutral grain spirits and more aging. Ran across this while searching for something else, but I wanted to comment on it because most people here aren't aware.įor a long time, Laird's has made 80 proof "Applejack" which is, as you describe, a blend of apple brandy and neutral grain spirits. /r/firewater (This one is for distillers!).We've put our favorite content on our wiki including a starter's guide to cocktails, best beginner's cocktail books, and the World Wide Bar Guide! So please check it out! If you believe your post was unfairly removed then you can contact the moderators for an appeal. Posts not compliant with rules may be removed and user may be banned. ![]() A post should promote or invite discussion, for example with interesting context, questions, or thoughts. ![]() Posts should invite discussion: Posts that serve only to show off pictures of bottles/ice/bars aren't really allowed. ![]() Be nice to others, a rising tide raises all boatsĤ. Do not steal content from other community membersģ. 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Today, you can find a niche podcast for just about any arcane interest on earth and sign up for automatic downloads of each show as it is released. Unlike live radio, you can listen when it’s convenient for you, pausing and rewinding at will. It’s the perfect outlet for the plebeian creator, because it can be easily and cheaply produced with simply the human voice and doesn’t require visuals or, more importantly, the visual attention of its users - ideal for multitasking and background imbibing. The amount and variety of podcasts available today is staggering. We each have to discern how we will engage in today’s smorgasbord of information, inspiration and entertainment - but if we’re involved in any kind of pastoral guidance of others (looking at you, parents), we must be keenly aware of the power, presence and content contained in the dazzling digital behemoths that our particular sheep (and lambs) are accessing. (In my media workshops to priests and seminarians, we discuss that to “smell like the sheep” today means “smelling” like the mediated pastures in which the people in the pews are perpetually grazing.) ![]() Whether or not we are major users of digital media or not, we are all swimming more and more in media-saturated environments, and most likely the people we interact with on a regular basis have their minds and hearts filled with the latest movies, audio books, YouTube videos, GIFs, songs, tweets, memes, sports scores, breaking news alerts, texts, Instagram posts, video games, Facebook rants or viral sensations they just partook of. The bizarre year that is 2020 has drastically altered almost every aspect of our lives, including our media habits. |
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