In this, the competition's twenty-second year, a total of 234 photographs was submitted by 39 photographers. As always, the general standard was exceedingly high. In comparison with previous years, it was, however, disappointing to find rather few attempts to portray birds in flight. Our only other criticism relates to presentation. Some prints had been trimmed so close to the bird that they would

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