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Birdwatch: A song thrush connects me with the great-grandfather I never knew

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By Stephen Moss Verified
| Yahoo News UK Verified
I wake early on these bright summer mornings. And now that the birds in my garden have mostly fallen silent, only one is still serenading me at this hour: the aptly named song thrush. Its measured, deliberate repetitions – which this particular bird has provided without a break since the turn of the year – are unmistakable. Related: 'A great thrill': baby puffin is first one seen on Dorset coast in three decades Whenever I hear a song thrush, I'm taken back in time.
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Letter: JH Prynne obituary

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By Stephen Moss Verified
| AOL UK Verified
Updated Tue, 21 July 2026 at 4:16 pm UTC JH Prynne was a formidable scholar and literary critic.Photograph: verseversion.uk The notoriously “opaque, hermetic, impenetrable [and] forbidding” poetry of Jeremy Prynne might lead one to assume that his character was similarly austere. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, as I discovered during my first term studying English literature at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in autumn 1979.
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How birds are coping in the heatwave

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By Stephen Moss Verified
| MSN UK Verified
As we humans sweltered in the record-breaking late June heatwave, we might not have spared much thought on how birds were coping. Unlike us, birds are unable to sweat, so instead they have evolved other ways to avoid overheating. These include seeking shade beneath trees, bushes and hedgerows, spreading their wings to allow cooler air to circulate around their body, and opening their bills to cool down, the same as dogs do when they pant.
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