Difficult to decide

It’s difficult to decide what to spend my royalties on … …but I’m not complaining at all. Getting money for work done years ago, particularly quite pleasant work, is great. fighting for birds still sells a few copies even though it was published in 2012. 2012 – that’s a long time ago.

Tim Melling – Chinese Monal Pheasant

Tim writes: this rare pheasant is endemic to China, centred on the Sichuan Province. It is the largest and most highly-glossed of the three species of Monal Pheasant.  I have tried twice previously to see this elusive species without a sight or sound of one.  But this year I saw six males and three females…