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28 June 2021

A walk around Ogden Water, and an encounter with a locally rare bird.

Published 28-Jun-2021

Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Charles Darwin, ducks, flowers, gesses, great crested grebes, grey herons, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, John Frederick Bateman, Ogden Water, On the Moor (book), siskins, videos, yellow flag irises

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