Bird school : a beginner in the wood
Close to Adam Nicolson's home in Sussex, there is a forgotten field. It is the haunt of 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 these birds, to engage with a layer of life he had previously almost ignored. He wanted to look and listen, to return to `bird school' and see what it mig...