“The Running Sky: A Birdwatching Life” by Tim Dee : 20 July 2011
“The Running Sky” is one of those bird books that belongs to the “emotional” or “aesthetic” tradition of natural history writings. In twelve chapters, one for each month of the year starting in June, Dee relates stories from a lifetime of birding. In his own words “it follows a single year of (birds) from one summer to the next; it begins with nests and eggs and chicks on the sea cliffs of Shetland, and it ends, a year later with nests, eggs and chicks in the holes of an oak wood on Exmoor.” A mixture of acute observation of both people and birds, this book relates a selection of experiences from over 40 years of birding. Continue reading