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By day: Donor communications coordinator for @ctgla. Marketing & membership co-chair for @eallaorg. By night: Food Network junkie. LGBT social media evangelist.

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Farmers face fresh blow after RSPB bird feeding advice

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By Eric Brown
| Yahoo News UK Verified
Farmers must be tearing their hair out, jumping up and down on their caps, and throwing away their pitchforks in disgust. For these hard-pressed guardians of our countryside must now assimilate a new setback after absorbing Chancellor Rachel Reeves' taxation measures, which they claim led to farmers quitting and others committing suicide. Their gloom pool deepened when the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds announced that people should stop feeding seeds and nuts to garden birds.
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Norfolk Hawker dragonfly spotted in Sidcup for the first time

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By Eric Brown
| Yahoo News UK Verified
It is always gratifying and exciting when scarce wildlife unexpectedly appears near one's home. Recently, I saw a spectacular red kite flying near my house being buzzed by angry crows, probably concerned about nest safety. But this column is not about red kites or any other bird, though it is about aerial wildlife. Norfolk Hawker is one of Britain's rarest dragonflies - or at least it used to be. A journey east was necessary to see this specimen, confined to the ditches and dykes of East Anglia.
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Belated arrival of swifts brings relief but highlights pressures they face

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By Eric Brown
| Yahoo News UK Verified
Regular readers may recollect that I regard swifts reappearing over chez Brown as official start of summer and a highlights of the ornithological year. For more than 30 years they have returned to a nest site near my home and staged Red Arrows-type flypasts almost daily for about two and a half months. The most popular date for this phenomena has been May 5. Not this year.
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