Kevin Myers: Buzzards are a novelty, and no threat to swallows, but the magpie had it coming


Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom – Sep 14, 2014
Friday, September 14, 2014

Following this most accursed of summers, with the hay slain by the rain and lying in the muddy fields like lines of infantry on the Somme, the strangest things have been happening to our birdlife. Buzzards do not naturally live in this part of Leinster.
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