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- I’m Phil Gates, a botanist at Durham University in the UK and a Guardian Country Diarist. I have been fascinated by natural history since primary school days and with the microscopic world since my parents gave me my first microscope, when I was 12 years old. The magic of making personal discoveries about the natural world has never worn off.
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6 comments:
Perfect exposure both the cameras and the Yellowhammer.
Hi Adrian, for once, it stayed still long enough for me to compose the picture
What a little darling. Very helpful link to the song too.
This somewhat reminds me of the way our goldfinches have "yellowed up" in the past few weeks. Spring is especially slow coming to northern Colorado this year
The British library has a good collection of on-line birdsong, Toffeeapple....
Spring has really arrived here with a rush, Patricia
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