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Rubbish wildlife and ravenous ravens

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Jody Bourton Jody Bourton | 11:29 UK time, Thursday, 25 September 2008

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It's been an unusual week, to say the least. Saturday saw me on a rubbish dump waiting for seagulls to land. We were making a radio programme about seagulls that inhabit rubbish tips and were with some scientists who were using cannon netting in order to capture and ring them.

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A sting in the tale

Jody Bourton Jody Bourton | 09:57 UK time, Wednesday, 17 September 2008

This week, I hated wildlife. I jumped up and down and shouted like a loon directly at an animal,,,, but in my defence, it had just stung me.

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Picture by Ian Francis.

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The effects of flooding

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Jody Bourton Jody Bourton | 09:25 UK time, Thursday, 11 September 2008

There has been an extraordinary amount of rainfall in parts of the country which has resulted in rivers bursting their banks and many places being .

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The birds, the birds!

Jody Bourton Jody Bourton | 12:09 UK time, Thursday, 4 September 2008

I woke up bleary-eyed the other day to be met with what seemed like hundreds of birds on my house. It was a scene straight out of the famous Hitchcock film - The Birds.

They were in fact a flock of house martins that must have contained 50 or more individuals.

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