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Hilbre Islands Local Nature Reserve - Information from Wirral Borough Council covering how to get to Hilbre Island, the wildlife and the history of the islands.
Hilbre Bird Observatory and Ringing Station - Organisation observing, studying and ringing birds on or around Hilbre Island. Includes advice for people visiting the island, a history of the organisation, recent sightings, articles about the birds and members' travels, and information about publications.
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Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Hilbre Islands Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Life is not an easy matter.... 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Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth Hilbre Islands
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