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Bird school : a beginner in the wood
Nicolson, Adam, 1957-2025
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Close to Adam Nicolson's home in Sussex, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is the haunt of deer and many birds - nightingales, the occasional cuckoo, ravens, robins, owls and in summer the sweet-singing warblers that come north from Africa to breed in English woods. This book charts his attempt to encounter birds, to engage with a marvellous layer of life he had previously almost ignored. He wanted to look and listen, to return to 'bird school' and see what it might teach him. He built a small shed amongst the trees with nesting boxes and bird feeders. Cocooned inside, season after season, he got to know the birds: where they nest, how they sing, how they mate and fight, what preys on them, what they are like as living things.
Main title:
Bird school : a beginner in the wood / Adam Nicolson.
Author:
Nicolson, Adam, 1957-, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2025.
Collation:
440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes QR code to access free-to-use recordings of wildlife sounds from across the world.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780008490836 (hbk)
Dewey class:
598.0941
LC class:
QL690.G7
Local class:
598.094
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4161517