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I second that, Judie. My sister and I were both
members of the Gould League of Bird Lovers when we were at primary school. We
were at a small bush school at the time and birds were part of our life, from
the eagles and hawks that were more frequent in lambing season to the fairy
wrens, the magpies, the kookaburras, the kingfishers, the robins, the plovers,
etc. etc. Neither of us belong to birding clubs but we've never lost the
lifelong practice of looking for and living with birds. Currently I'm
'observing' a pair of crimson rosellas nesting in a tree near my door (I share
an acre of natural bush opposite a forest) keeping an eye out for
the rufous fantail and wondering whether the pair of spotted ground
thrushes survived the feral cats. It seems to me that the major problem is
that so many kids, and their parents, don't 'live in nature' any
more.
regards, Patricia
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