Category: Book review

Reviewed by Ian Carter Donald Watson is someone with whom I’ve built a connection of sorts, though we never met. I have ended up living in Galloway not many miles from the village where he spent much of his life painting the birds and the landscapes that he loved, and making his ground-breaking studies of…

There was a time, a few decades ago, when the most difficult thing about Marsh and Willow Tits was to know which of these two very similar species one was seeing (the calls are much easier) but now the main difficulty is seeing either of them at all. The identification features are now better known…

Those who enjoy Ian Carter’s writing, and very many of us do, will enjoy this latest work about his new home in Galloway. Ian encounters new species, new names and introduces us to his new surroundings. The author’s move from Devon was motivated partly by a yearning for wildness and from his fairly remote new…

This book is by friends, colleagues and family of Donald Watson, the artist and writer who passed away in 2005.  I can’t review it as I wrote a glowing Foreword for the book itself and was delighted and felt honoured to be asked. This book of nine chapters, by seven authors, brought a person I…

Nicholas Milton is a productive author and this is the fifth of his books I’ve reviewed here.  The Role of Birds in World War One, The Role of Birds in World War Two and The Secret Life of the Adder were published in 2022 and followed Neville Chamberlain’s Legacy in 2019. I’ve rated all of his books highly…