https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/08/the-birds-of-spitalfields/bewick_0008/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 08 Jun 2014 07:41:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/08/the-birds-of-spitalfields/bewick_0008/#comment-362863 Sun, 08 Jun 2014 07:41:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bewick_0008.jpg#comment-362863 That’s amazing; collared doves are generally believed to have arrived in the UK in the 1950s and yet here is an engraving depicting one from 1832 when they surely must have been in some numbers to be included in “A History of British Birds”.

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