Often painted as a thief and a troublemaker, the magpie’s high intelligence and shimmering beauty are shadowed by misunderstanding and ancient fears

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

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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

The Solway Firth is a huge inlet on the west coast of Britain between Cumbria and Scotland, more specifically the area of Dumfries and Galloway. The firth has vast areas of saltmarsh and intertidal mu