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With its mix of memoir, gentle advice and enthusiastic advocacy, this book sets out a case for purposeful birdwatching. Along the way, it explains how to make your birding more enjoyable, fulfilling and worthwhile. Using ideas and techniques from his five decades of experience, Rob Hume reveals how an ever-enquiring approach to observation of the natural world can yield unexpected treasures – whether this be something rare or simply new details concealed in the apparently everyday.
Preface
What is birdwatching, anyway?
What to do with your interest in birds
Buy a good book
Get a notebook and pen
Distribution, habitats and time of year
Colour and light
Early days
More good days, bad days, ordinary days
Waxwings
Some dusk encounters
Soaring birds and birds of prey
Local patches
Wonderful Wales в Croeso i Gymru
Superlative Scotland
Great shrikes
If at first’s
October rarities
Flight lines over the house
There will always be questions
Up on the moors
Gulls
Seabirds and sunshine
From a distance