Year: 2017

Sunday book review – A History of Birds by Simon Wills

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  This book is similar in some ways to that reviewed earlier this morning – this one is cheaper and better. Simon Willis chooses 30 species (eg Blue Tit, Lapwing) and groups of birds (eagles, flamingos) and tells us interesting things about them and about people connected to them. This book is beautifully illustrated with…

Sunday book review – Birdmania by Bernd Brunner

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  This book is really quite annoying. It’s annoying because it has some really good parts but it lacks structure of any sort. Most sentences are perfect but many paragraphs are a collection of sentences that are poorly linked together. I often got to the end of a paragraph and went back to try to…

Tim Melling – Harlequins

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Tim writes: I think Harlequins are one of the most beautiful ducks in the world.  They breed in Iceland, Greenland, northern North America and eastern Asia.  These two were floating in the surf off the Vancouver Island coast.  I have always found them to be quite unapproachable, which might explain their scientific name (Histrionicus histrionicus),…