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Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Back over the rooftops after ten months away, a swift has declined the spot the sparrows saved for her on the gutter, explaining that she is still in the middle of something.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
A spade went into the vegetable bed at ten past nine, and four seconds later a robin was on the wheelbarrow, checking the work and removing anything that wriggled.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
A tawny owl in the old oak by the playing field has asked the neighbourhood to stop reading so much into her stare, which she says is just how her face works.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Spokesbirds for a clifftop colony insist the bright orange beaks that appear every spring are entirely natural and have nothing whatsoever to do with fashion.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
For eleven mornings a woodpecker has hammered on the metal chimney cap of number four at ten past six, and he would like it understood that he is being polite, not loud.
Fact-based Odd Places
The Salar de Uyuni is so flat that a thin film of rain turns it into a mirror 129 kilometres across, and when it dries, satellites use it to check their eyesight.
Fact-based Nature Did It First
Japan's fast trains made a loud bang every time they left a tunnel, until engineers gave one a long nose shaped like the beak of a diving kingfisher.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
A statement delivered at length from a fence post asks the public to stop leaving teaspoons out, and requests one very specific kind of bendy twig instead.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
A hummingbird the weight of a coin has claimed exclusive rights to a sugar-water feeder with four perfectly good drinking holes, and spends most of his day making sure nobody else uses any of them.
Fiction Tiny Stories
A book about birds, borrowed in the spring of a year nobody at the library could remember, arrived back through the returns slot with a very long letter tucked inside the cover.