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Country diary: Somewhere in the vast forest is a miniature one

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By Amanda Thomson
| Yahoo News UK Verified
The soundtrack to my day is the calls of siskins, blackcaps, willow warblers, coal tits and tree pipits, the drumming of a great spotted woodpecker and an occasional cuckoo. But this morning my gaze is aimed downwards. I'm walking slowly, gingerly, looking for a colony of twinflowers that I know I've seen around here before. They're one of my favourite flowers and a sign for me that summer is here.
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Country diary: As spring bursts into life, all eyes on the Cairngorms barbecue ban

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By Amanda Thomson
| Yahoo News UK Verified
In the pinewoods, the colours are slowly shifting, the birches to their spring green and the larch roses are blossoming pink. The pair of pied wagtails have returned to our neighbour’s shed and the peewits are back on the marshes, though fewer in number (and there are two pairs of crows that maraude their territory).
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Country diary: Wildcats are here and they're on the march

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By Amanda Thomson
| MSN UK Verified
Amanda Thomson It is always interesting to see how overnight snow reveals what goes on under the cover of night. Around the granny pines, I see the smaller fore and larger hind prints of a red squirrel. Across the fields and along pinewood paths, there is evidence of hares and badgers, pine martens and deer, before they veered off, back into the heather and blaeberry understorey.
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