Here's a fine snap of just a tiny section of the "Pyramid of Bird Books" that I built when the Lockdown got started .... but it just got totally out of hand as I found more and more of them and it all got too tall and too wobbly ... there's at least 150 + more of them scattered around the house... maybe more. And quite a lot of them are ginormous. And that doesn't even include the 100s of birding magazines, and the bound volumes of BB and suchlike .... blimey !!!!! Yes, National Book Day was yesterday ..... but for technical reasons, I'm writing about it today. So I suppose I should recommend some of them, or tell you some of the stinkers. Ages ago I showed you my specially selected "30cm of bird books" .... the idea was, you pretend you're going to be stranded on a desert island, and you only just managed to save 30cm of bird books from the wreckage of your boat. Here it is ... ..here they are spread out so you can see them in more detail... I would certainly recommend all of those to all of you. And if I had to put them in order of excellence, it would be something like this... 1=] The Big Bird Race 1=] Kingbird Highway 3] Best Days with British Birds 4] Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book ( It upped my game) 5] British Birding 1984 (incredibly rare)(incredibly gripping) 6] Evenings at the Coot and Corncrake. 7] Wild America. ( A sort of companion to Kingbird Highway) 8] Gone Birding 9] Gripping Yarns 10] Seventy Years of Birdwatching 11] Birds New to Britain 1980-2004 12] Birds New to Britain and Ireland 13] Follow That Bird ! 14] The Birds of the London Area 15] Bird Identification ( keep it in the car) Then, of course, there's the stinkers ! Here's the crappiest bird book I've ever seen ... a collector's item in many ways ... Here's the links to my two "reviews" of that terrible, dreadful heap of crap .... 732-the-worst-garden-birdwatching-book-ever.html 735-gender-part-2.html But now it is Music Time .... more of The Dandy Warhols. ...
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