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Gamekeeper

was eye to eye with my favourite species of bird the other morning, the swift. Two days later, I was thrilled to see another pair. I fell in love with them while I was living in Shrewsbury; summer evenings were full of noise as gangs of them rushed, screaming, about the brick buildings. The exuberance and sheer joy

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