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Feedback about birding with bill oddie, bbc two england, 20. My son bought me the how to watch wildlife series on dvd xmas 2007, which i enjoyed, so i told him id like bill oddie goes birding for xmas 2008. The next day the same chicken came back to the library and said buck buck, so the librarian gave the bird two books. Stephen moss works at the bbc natural history unit where he has produced programmes including springwatch, autumnwatch and the nature of britain.
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