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THIS YEAR MARKS a pretty major milestone for me: the completion of 30 years of uninterrupted dedication to keeping birds. I can safely exclaim that I have been in the hobby man and boy and, as I approach middle age, I still find some strange sense of humour when I get described as “the youngster”.

That is, of course, a potential reflection on the hobby, but as I have always tried to stress, the hobby isn’t declining as rapidly as it once was. I would even be so

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