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found almost everywhere, but chiefly fre- 
quent gardens, orchards and vegetable fields. 
The place to find them in winter is amongst 
cabbages, first and foremost, and also 
amongst turnips and parsnips—in fact 
wherever there are most snails and slugs, 
there they will be in the winter, and in the sum- 
mer you will find them where ripe fruit is. 
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This was another day’s work amongst 
the birds. I have called it an ‘off’ day, 
because we saw so few birds and took so 
few photographs. Nevertheless we had seen 
much of interest. The naturalist can always 
be learning something fresh, and this is one 
of the charms of this fascinating branch of 
study. 
