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This very young Wren quickly took a dust bath in the sunshine before flying off into the ivy

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We all know that war affects wildlife but often we don't know how much. Here, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) assesses the impact of the Russian-Ukraine war on raptor migration, using data from tagged Greater Spotted Eagles.

TL:DR: It's not good.

https://www.bto.org/our-science/publications/peer-reviewed-papers/active-european-warzone-impacts-raptor-migration?dm_i=NXK,8NGNU,3JRKCQ,ZW58V,1#:~:text=Collaborative%20research%20involving%20BTO%20has,Russian%20invasion%20of%20February%202022.

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One of the fledgling robins looking like suet wouldn’t melt in its beak

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“Smile for the nice man dear” Fradley Nature Reserve.

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Statistics from the BTO show that the has an average lifespan of 2 years. The oldest recorded, by ringing, lived 11 years and 2 days!!

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Robins are the UKs favourite bird. They are happy to get close, to see what you are up to, like this one on our walk by the canal.

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With so many rainy days, we have had quite a few coming to the feeders. They are really beautiful little finches. This is the male. They naturally feed on pine cone seeds, but the damp weather makes the cones close up, so are not so available. It seems like forever since the sun came out for any length of time.

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