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Message: <blockquote data-quote="colleenc" data-source="post: 1513055" data-attributes="member: 76425">Nick, I don't know of any Grenache around here, I'll look, but for oystercatchers, I think a nice Dehlinger chard will go nice, or you can pick from one of these <a href="http://www.dehlingerwinery.com/parkerreviews.htm" target="_blank">http://www.dehlingerwinery.com/parkerreviews.htm</a>This winery is so exclusive you have to be on their subscription list to get any and have to buy 2 cases per year to stay on the list. Nothing open to the public for tasting.  They make the kind of wines that produce euphoria on the first sip about 1/2 mile from my cottage. Thought you  all might like to see a shot of Bodega Head, where I spend a lot of time with the cormorants, and where I saw my first oystercatcher, through the scope of a birder there, who has become a mentor. My first sight in a scope was just electrifying, he had it focused so that the head nearly filled the field,  that eye just did me in.  I wonder why they are called "black" oystercatchers when they are really brown? There are more oc that live in a group in the nice calm bay where they have a much easier life than these two. My 3rd trip out I heard their call for the first time WoW! really loud, drowned out the surf noise and just about everything else. The one in the shot is one of a pair that have built a second nest on this rock mightily exposed IMHO to the wind and ravens, who I suspect did in the first nest</blockquote>

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