Letters to the Editor
Letter of the week
Hello, old friend
ENJOYED Julie Harding’s appraisal of the winners and losers of the summer of 2022 (). It was illustrated with a bee-eater—the species nested successfully at Trimmingham, Norfolk, this summer and this has been cited as an example of these attractive birds responding to climate change. This may well be the case, but the first record of a bee-eater in England dates back to 1668 and a pair is reputed to have nested at Ketton in Rutland in 1868. This year,
