Bird Nuts - the Magnificent Obsession. Why do birds exert such an extraordinary fascination over so many people? While 400 enthusiasts queue patiently in the Isles of Scilly just to glimpse a small brown bird blown off course by gales, an American house-builder constructs an ornate "condominium" for migrant swallows. Martin Wainwright reports on this strange obsession. Producer Oilys Breese
Series editor Mike Salisbury
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