Margaret Bradshaw crouches on all fours on Widdybank Fell in Teesdale, being drenched by sheets of horizontal rain. The 97-year-old botanist mumbles the names of…
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Country diary: A female goosander mother is left to defend her ducklings alone | Phil Gates
Outside the breeding season, goosanders are usually wary birds, liable to take flight at the first inkling of an approaching human threat. Not so the…
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