Tweet of the Day

…A year of Britain’s Birds

By Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss

If you’d like to know a bit more about British birds – the actual interesting bits that stick in your memory not the data – this is a great book to choose.

“…It is not a field guide, so…you won’t find detailed descriptions of bird plumages or distribution, or long lists of statistics. Instead, we have attempted to convey the essence of each bird: its character, the places where it lives, and especially what it is like to see and hear it in the field.

Where appropriate, we have also added stories about how the bird’s life intersects with our own: through folklore, history, art, music, literature and culture…”

It’s a good book for dipping in and out of and easy to read and enjoy.

It came about following a BBC Radio 4 series of the same name and this is still available: Radio 4 Tweet of the Day