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    The rain bird

    Sep 15, 2020 3 minutes

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    I’M not very good at recognising birdsong, as sadly I’m not musical. Like my daughters and my father used to say, I couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket! I’ve also got limited hearing, and always have had, so I envy people who can say, ‘Listen to that bird.’

    However, there’s one bird I can always identify and that is the green woodpecker (), because

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