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    WILD MONTH

    Nov 19, 2020 3 minutes
    By Ben Hoare

    1 | GOLDFINCH

    The gilded goldfinch

    God knows the world needs all the good it can get right now – Out in the gardens and fields, Goldfinches are gilding the land for free

    The opening lines of Goldfinch, a poem in Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s new book The Lost Spells, remind us that garden birds are joy-bringers in difficult times, yet not something we can take for granted. Canaries in the coal mine, their fortunes should concern us all.

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