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Article: Townies don't need the countryside.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 18, 2002
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Byline: GAVIN WEIGHTMAN
The sight of the bittern in Barnes is proof positive, says Gavin Weightman, that London is teeming with wildlife
THOSE fanatical bird- watchers, the "twitchers", who stop at nothing for a sighting of a rare visitor to Britain, made a beeline last week not for some wild and windswept acre of countryside but for an exclusive enclave in Barnes where a house was sold recently for [pound]2.8 million. Thirty of them packed the hide at the London Wetland Centre to train their telescopes on a tall, aloof-looking wading bird standing among the reeds, a beady eye on the lookout for fish, eels and passing water voles. For the first time in ...
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