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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. Hawfinches have declined in the UK in recent years and become harder to see, though they remain common on the Continent: this year I’ve only seen them in Greece. They make the forest look much more inviting than it really is.

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