Standing up for Nature
I’m not keen on the cover of this book and I’m not that keen on its title, but I really enjoyed the story. A middle-aged lapsed birdwatcher takes up the hobby again and tries hard to see 200 species in a calendar year while also being a freelance conductor (of music). Does he succeed? I…
I really hadn’t appreciated that the collective name for a bunch of martens was a ‘richness’ until reading this book. And there are many individually-known Pine Martens that feature in this book, all living on the westernmost peninsula of Britain, on Ardnamurchan. The book is an account of the behaviour of Craig, Clive, Chris, Chloe,…
But this is the book I am reading at the moment…
I knew I’d like this book, despite its depressing subject, and I did. I’m a fan of Lucy Siegle’s writing on environmental and consumer matters, I’ve heard her say interesting things on panels and I’ve had a very few brief chats with her. She would have been the perfect chair for the otherwise all-female panel…
I was one of the judges for these awards – the judging was in early January and the book is out and was selling well at the Bird Fair last weekend. That’s pretty good going. The cover photograph, of American Flamingos at a flamingo sanctuary in Madrid, and by Pedro Jarque Krebs from Peru, was…
This book was published quite a long time ago – 1999 in hardback – but it deals with a topical subject and I noticed it on sale in the bookstores of Yellowstone National Park a few weeks ago. I almost bought it then, particularly as there was a Raven running around on the roof…
This is like a book, but it’s a supplement to a journal: Sandgrouse, the journal of OSME, the Ornithological Society of the Middle East. This is the 50th anniversary issue. I have spent about four days of my life in the OSME region which stretches from Egypt to Kazakhstan and from quite large chunks of…
This book, out of 40+ I reviewed in 2018, was the title I chose as my wildlife book of the year – I recommend it highly. You can buy this book from Bookshop.org and I have set up a booklist to make that easy through this link https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/MarkAvery Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org…
It was very sporting of GWCT to send me a copy of this book to review (I had to ask, but they sent it very quickly). Readers of this blog may well have their own copies of this book already but I thought it worth a brief review for those whose bookshelves lack it at…
This is a charming book, but lest that sounds a bit condescending (it wasn’t meant to be) it is also a cracking good read. Bill Meek is an ex-CEH ecologist who wrote a column for his local paper, the Cleethorpes Chronicle, for three and a half years. In that column he aimed to inform, entertain…