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BIRD WATCHING

the trees, and especially the birch-trees, for which they seem to have a decided preference, perhaps because they make a fairy setting for their fairy selves.

Fairy Artillery: Willow-Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) pecking catkins in flight, by Joseph Smit
Fairy Artillery

They affect its catkins, and one of the most