Seeing, hearing, touch, taste, smell, magnetic sense and emotions are the chapters under which Prof Tim Birkhead FRS discusses what it’s like to be a bird. It’s a good read and I learned a lot about how we people sense the world around us as well as how birds sense it differently. How do birds…
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Book review and readers’ offer: Wildlife photographer – a course in creative photography by Chris Gomersall
I think I was put off photography at an early age by my father. He was a keen photographer, and I remember spending what must have been minutes but seemed like hours, hanging around or reading a book in the car whilst we all waited for the sun to come out or go in, or…
Book offer – Simon Barnes’s new book
birdwatching with your eyes closed is Simon Barnes’s new book, published by Short Books. It’s an introduction to birdsong and if you are a novice bird-watcher then it will help you to be an expert bird-listener. Simon told me that ‘Learning birdsong really has changed the way I see the world. I’d love to help…