Les Rance, Editor, The Parrot Society UK | www.theparrotsocietyuk.org


ird keeping is normally a relaxing pastime, however, for hobbyist breeders the very poor weather we were enduring well into March was somewhat of a challenge, the picture of my aviaries taken on the morning of 23rd March just underlines this fact, not only snow but a strong cold easterly wind that blew for day after day creating a nasty wind chill and low night temperatures, how did the breeding birds survive.


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not careful they will find that their income will reduce even further as people and businesses send less and less by conventional means. How much longer bird clubs will be able to afford to post magazines to their members must be a great worry to many club officials. An e-magazine does not have this problem, or that of the cost of colour printing. As a result of increases to the costs of both postage and printing I am really pleased that we decided to produce Bird Scene as a FREE e-magazine. We have learnt a great deal over the past twenty two months about this way of


This is now the eleventh edition of Bird Scene, how quickly twenty two months can pass when you are working on a new project – the first FREE on-line bird magazine produced in the UK. At 48 pages this is quite a big read! Every time we post the Parrot Society magazine I cringe at the cost postal costs appear to have increased far faster than inflation and if The Royal Mail are


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communicating with bird enthusiasts and I am sure that this knowledge will become more and more valuable as we see further increases in costs to paper magazines. We are still learning and are always happy to receive articles about the species that are being exhibited at The National and are very pleased to give publicity to the club supplying the information. Regular readers will know that Bird Scene as been produced to publicise The National Exhibition held each year at our October Sale Day/Show and to


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