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  • The vole damage is very severe - almost a clean sweep on 300 acres of trees up to 10 yrs [years] old About 90% on a group of 3 yr [year] old trees I examined. All species are taken. Saw some beech 2" diam. [diameter] cut right off at ground level. Mostly the roots are eaten, the bark removed or the needles trimmed from the lower foot. About 1000 acres on this forest are involved. Forester Calder - 2 yrs [years] forest course grad. [graduate] W.T. Thompson Dist. [District] Officer University A.V.S. Dier - Div. [Division] Forest Officer The birds today were a treat Lapwing, Black-headed gull, Common gull, herring gull, sky larks, meadow pipit, curlew, redshanks, short eared owl, kestrel, mute swan + mallard, as well as all the usual. April 25. Visited the Robert Blackwoods at Blackshiels, 16 miles out on the Dalkeith-Lauder Road. They live just a couple of miles N.W. [northwest] of the Lammermuirs, a low range of hills ending almost in Bass Rock During a walk of 5 miles or so I saw numbers of birds. 12 or so pair of partridge, 5 [male symbol] pheasant + several hens, my first redstart - behaved like a chipping sparrow. A group of jackdaws nesting in rabbit burrows etc. [etcetera].
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