BIRDS - 100 years ago: Suburban gardens lead to abundance of birds

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 31 March 1914The weather yesterday was mild, and light showers fell in some places throughout the day. At an early hour this morning it was bright and sunny, and the calm, genial air seemed to have set every bird in the parish singing. As I passed through the fields larks, thrushes, blackbirds, robins, hedge-sparrows, linnets, and a number of other small songsters were doing their best to attract ...

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