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All of nature in a village in Norfolk

20 July 2019

9:00 AM

20 July 2019

9:00 AM

Walking home from work one day during the half-year I lived in London’s Maida Vale (almost three decades ago now), I was just about to turn into an archway leading to the mews house in which I rented a room when into my path a steady stream of grey feathers suddenly began falling.

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