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A winter miscellany

10,000 Birds

Today these trees – oak, beech and horse chestnut – are like fine icing on a very poor cake. One creature that doesn’t budge for the Nuthatch is the Brown Rat, and a pair of these rodents were demonstrating their agility by raiding the bird seed. They make the forest look much more inviting than it really is.

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