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           <title>Names are a funny game for our crows</title>
           
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  THE collective nouns for birds usually produce a few curiosities and questions. Some examples concern members of the crow family. For example: a murder of crows, a mischief of magpies, an unkindness of ravens, a conceit of jackdaws, a clamour of rooks, a chattering of choughs and a band of jays.
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           <title>Celebrating month of floral splendour</title>
           
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  THE month of May has always been a cause for celebration, with May Day supporting hundreds of different events and ceremonies throughout the country.
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           <title>Headquarters could have ended intiers</title>
           
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  THE proposal by the local police and crime commissioner to sell the North Yorkshire Police Headquarters building at Newby Wiske Hall is of particular interest to me.
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           <title>The curious nature oflocalised names</title>
           
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  I HAVE come across some curious terminology that is now becoming more widely used particularly where map-making is concerned.
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           <title>Warmer weather could see Argentinian visitors fighting with the locals</title>
           
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  I T is not often that we notice jays around my part of Yorkshire despite their colourful plumage. Members of the crow family, they have beautiful warm buffcoloured bodies, distinctive blue patches on their blacktipped wings which also have some white feathers in the wings’ central areas, and neat little crests of black and white.
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           <title>Good Friday, the day of crop planting</title>
           
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  AS I look out of my study window upon a covering of snow and the remnants of the previous night’s frost, it is difficult to believe that Easter is upon us. However, I am writing these notes a couple of weeks in advance so there is time for the weather to change and hopefully provide us with sunshine for the holiday weekend.
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           <title>Do pine martens hold the key to squirrels?</title>
           
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  ONE of the best known wild animals in this country is probably the grey squirrel. If we do not see several in our woods or fields, or raiding our bird feeders for food, we are highly likely to be aware of them in town parks and formal gardens. In the latter case, they are well fed by human visitors who encourage them to stay and make their homes nearby. In some cases, these cheeky squirrels show no fear of humans and will even take food from the hand.
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           <title>Song heralds end to dearth of birds</title>
           
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  THIS morning, as I write these notes two weeks ahead of publication, the sun was shining as I awoke and a thrush was in full voice in our cherry tree. He remained for more than an hour before moving a few yards into some neighbouring silver birches and finally performing from sycamores behind the house. All those trees are leafless as I make these notes but clearly he senses that spring is in the air and equally clearly, he is declaring his presence to other thrushes and marking the boundaries of his territory. In the near future, there may be a thrush’s nest somewhere nearby.
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           <title>Stories may change but the names stay the same overthe generations</title>
           
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  ONE of the interesting facets of writing about the countryside and local communities is that the same surnames often appear profusely in certain places. Clearly, it means that those particular families have lived there for many generations, whether or not they originated there or moved in at a later stage.
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           <title>Memories of 1947 as strong as ever</title>
           
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  WHEN I was a child, much of my early exploration beyond the boundaries of my home village was upon the neighbouring moors. It was around that time that I became interested in the local history and legends of my locality, along with an understanding of the wild life that surrounded us.
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