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Warblers, Wolves & a Wild Finca — Part 1
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Dear Reader, Last spring our lovely friends Penny and Dave Green visited us here at Wild Finca. You may remember the newsletter afterwards - full of moth trapping, bio-blitzing, and all sorts of other magical nature activities. If you’d like to transport yourself to northern Spain for a little while, you can listen to Part 1 here:
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The Wild Finca Insider: Stories from our Sanctuary for Nature
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