Category: birds
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Two suitably Italian lifers in Florence
There’s much to commend urban birding in the Tuscan capital. A varied cast of characters, from old favourites to new surprises, could be enjoyed without having to go at all long between glasses of Chianti.
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Grey, yellow, gold
Winter can feel colourless. While the snow we’ve had in fits and bursts over the past month helps to brighten the surroundings, the world still seems drained of pigment, devoid as it is of greenery, flowers, people, the stuff of life. True, there are people, but they are solitary figures, trussed up in dark coats…
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On being a blackbird chick, and other signs of spring
Spring takes a while to arrive in Oslo, almost 60 degrees north. It doesn’t creep up on you, like autumn seems to do in early August (the horror!); you have to encourage it, will it into existence. That’s a hard task after such a long winter. It’s April, with Easter mere days away, and the…