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Wheatears not walkers

LEVEN years ago to the day, our village twitchers were whipped into a state of frenzy by the presence of a red-flanked bluetail where no red-flanked bluetail should be,. a couple of miles up the road in a Galley Head garden. These tiny birds (like thinner, more colourful robins) winter in South-East Asia and holiday in, bizarre as it may

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