Twitchers

How an army of curtain twitchers outsmarted Adolf’s German spies in wartime Britain

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Eighty years ago in 1940, a dark cloud of suspicion verging on paranoia hung heavily over the British Isles. The country was at war with Nazi Germany and Hitler’s forces were camped just across the English Channel. Invasion seemed inevitable and imminent, and the country went into a form of lockdown, with barbed wire on … Read more

Twitchers flock to Lincolnshire to see rare bone-crunching bearded vulture

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In raptor! Twitchers flock to Lincolnshire to see rare bone-crunching bearded vulture named ‘Vigo’ with an 8ft wingspan after it flew 800 miles from the Alps Up to 200 enthusiasts race to Moulton West Fen in Lincolnshire to see the bird Bearded vulture, or lammergeier (‘lamb vulture’), is normally in Alpine regions Birder Mark Hawkes … Read more