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Our first assignment of 2025 was to tackle an untidy area adjacent to the Walston Castle, identified by one of the team. A couple of traffic cones kept us a little safer from the traffic, which to be fair behaved well. You get the odd one who’s in a rush, which is like a red rag to a bull to Shady, who gets so irate and this ends up in confrontation. To keep Shady out of trouble, we asked him to put up a nesting box donated by the wildlife group, well away from any traffic. When Shady didn’t return on time we set off to find him. He was seen standing on a box, nailing the nest box to a tree, apparently for flightless blue tits. Because of the notoriety surrounding Shady, he insisted his profile be removed from the photograph<\/p>\n

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