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Today we have had a flock of blackbirds feeding in the garden on the hawthorn berries. Where will they have come from? Normally we have just the odd pair.

Rhona Doughty, Cheadle, Cheshire

Val Osborne

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The blackbirds feeding on the hawthorn berries in your garden, may have come from Sweden, Norway or Iceland.

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