“Corvus : A Life with Birds ” by Esther Woolfson : 4th July 2011
This book has been sitting on the bookshelf for a while. I actually bought it as a gift for Anne but I borrowed it to read on our holiday to Montacute and then the New Forest. The title gives the story away. It is the personal recollection of the author’s life with a series of Corvids which she obtained largely as birds dropped from the nest or abandoned and “rescued” by other people. There is a certain affinity with Gerald Durrell in that it is an often humorous account of the interaction between a human and a “wild” animal more or less domesticated. Woolfson mainly deals with the corvids that she raised including a Rook and a Magpie.