Exploring in journal form the seasonal bird fauna, more especially including bird behaviour, in a Cumbrian valley. The author has worked in forestry and was a lecturer in Natural History studies at two UK universities. The text is accompanied by a series of stunning watercolours of birds and their habitats.
Derwent May is one of the country's leading experts on nature and the countryside and, for many years, his Feather Reports have appeared regularly in the pages of The Times. In those columns - collected in this evocative and charming volume - May captures the rich and changing world of British bird ...
