I hope you've all got a copy of this excellent book .... ..... but surely it is time for a new collection .... there's been plenty of time since 1996 when it was published. And that's not the only book that's worthy of an excellent sequel . What about those two " Coot and Corncrake" (Chris Harbard) books .. there's plenty of potential for some new stories in those. And why not Bill Oddie's BIG black bird book ? There's that Kaufman who wrote his epic " Kingbird Highway" a sort of low-budget "Big Year Bird Race" round America ... surely there's a huge market for follow-ups ... " Trump's Twitching Tricksy Ticks" is an obvious best-seller for a start. " Twitching with the Taliban" is another obvious volume , then there's "The Charm of Birds" ( Viscount Grey of Fallodon) (which really needs a kick up the arse) but could lead to even posher books such as " In-Spired Birding" by the Archbishop of Oxpecker, or " Boris's Big Bird Book and/or "Maggie Thatcher Tick Snatcher" ... all would be mega-sellers. That Simon Barnes wrote " How to be a bad birdwatcher" ..... But surely he should try to help bad birdwatchers to be better ... there's a whole series to be written ... How to be a not so bad birdwatcher How to be a so-and-so sort of birdwatcher How to be reasonably good birdwatcher How to be an above- average birdwatcher How to be good birdwatcher How to be an ornithologist How to be an ex-birdwatcher and do something useful instead. There's a whole new world of brilliant follow-ups to be written. But now it is music time. I'm not going to apologise for putting it on here again ... but it is beautiful and sad at the same time ........ as is life itself.
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