Anyone who has ever stayed at a bird observatory knows that wardens tend to be slightly eccentric. Perhaps this is an occupational disease, or it may be that such places provide fertile ground for the flowering of latent tendencies. In the case of Nick Riddiford, warden at Dungeness (Kent) since early in 1974, one can only hazard a guess, but eccentricity there certainly is. How else does one expl

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