“Birds and Men, The Bird Life of British Towns, Villages, Gardens and Farmland” by E.M. Nicholson, Collins Press, 1951
I have just finished reading “Birds and Men” by E.M. Nicholson. Anne got me this book as a present from the online Oxfam shop. It is an original hardback.
Max Nicholson, who died in 2003 aged 98, was one of British ornithology’s giants. His developed an early interest in bird watching and began to maintain a list of birds seen from 1913 (aged 9). At Oxford he read history, and visited Greenland and British Guiana as a founder member of the University’s Exploration Club. At Oxford he organized bird counts and censuses on the University’s farm at Sanford.