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30-minute birder Amanda Tuke enjoys some slower birding on the south coast of England…

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10 great sites for brilliant birdwatching

Although midwinter can seem lifeless, many sites still have their fair share of wintering and resident birds, with even a slim chance of a scarcity, writes David Callahan

My sky is never empty. At dawn there may be just a lone crow beating a steady path north, or at dusk, the curiously undulating, huge wings of a heron heading to roost in a willow above the ditch. Duck