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Sam is talking specifically about nightingale habitat but his point is that what is good for one species will benefit all.
Michael Salter, warden of Saxmundham Fishing Club, describes this perfectly at the club’s fishing ponds and conservation area.
The two ponds were dug out from a grubbed up Second World War runway and the area has been allowed to naturally regenerate from the bare clay.
“With reeds in the water, wide hedges and overgrown areas of scrub it’s a haven for wildlife, reed buntings, cormorants, murmurations of starlings, turtle dove and nightingale. Bee orchids, pyramids. You name it, it s here,” he says.
Sam is talking specifically about nightingale habitat but his point is that what is good for one species will benefit all.
Michael Salter, warden of Saxmundham Fishing Club, describes this perfectly at the club’s fishing ponds and conservation area.
The two ponds were dug out from a grubbed up Second World War runway and the area has been allowed to naturally regenerate from the bare clay.
“With reeds in the water, wide hedges and overgrown areas of scrub it’s a haven for wildlife, reed buntings, cormorants, murmurations of starlings, turtle dove and nightingale. Bee orchids, pyramids. You name it, it s here,” he says.
Dick Meadows
Norwich Cathedral by John R Davies
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It is almost exactly 100 years since an American advertising executive coined the phrase ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’
That’s certainly true of a unique collection of art due to be auctioned in Norwich next Friday.
It just so happens that in this case it will also take around a thousand words to explain the story behind the art, the auction and the organisers.
So art, auction and organisers.
Art first.
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It has been donated by some of Norfolk’s leading painters, sculptors and ceramacists, as well as contributions from nationally known figures including Antony Gormley, best known for his towering Angel of the North.