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Some therapeutic post-lockdown birding

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Still, the ease of restrictions allowed me to escape some of the elections campaign torture through the media and exchange it for the soothing sensation of being in a deep and damp conifer forests in the rain. Grey-headed Woodpecker by Krishna Prajapati / Wikimedia Commons. Forest bathing?

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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European Turtle-Dove Streptopelia turtur. I live in the second biggest city in the Balkans (Athens being the first) and Turtle Doves are understandably uncommon at its outskirts, although I did manage to record them only a mile from my home. European Turtle-Dove by Denis Cachia. (The IUCN/BirdLife International Red List).

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