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Yesterday we introduced our latest conservation initiative, the 10,000 Birds Conservation Club and the emails and comments flooded in (well, actually, they didn’t - but it was a Sunday in November, so we’re not disheartened quite yet!).

What we didn’t do yesterday - the post was getting very long as it was - was to [...]

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Sometimes the stars and the planets align and everything seems possible. Ideas flow and optimism reigns supreme. The winning roll-over lotto ticket is winking at you as you enter the store, and everything you touch turns to gold…

At other times though an idea pokes its head above the ground and finds conditions less than favourable. [...]

We’ve reviewed all three of the superb ‘Sound Approach’ books - ‘Sound Approach to Birding‘, ‘Petrels night and day‘, and ‘Birding from the Hip‘ - and now, like we so often do, we’d like to give them away to one lucky reader! This time though there’s a conservation twist, supported by the Sound Approach team, [...]

Back in mid-September I reviewed Anthony McGeehan’s “Birding From the Hip“, the third book published by the innovative and highly talented ‘Sound Approach’ team in as many years (the first was 2006’s superb and highly-recommended “Sound Approach to Birding“). At the end of the review (which was positive throughout but not for reasons that the [...]

I don’t seem to have nearly enough time these days to read books (and I apologise profusely to those publishers who’ve sent me books recently - I will read and review them all I promise) and ‘Birding from the Hip’ has been sat on a shelf in its wrapper for almost a month. Sometimes it’s [...]

M Constantine, Arnoud van den Berg, Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney
The Sound Approach, 2006
 
“The Sound Approach to Birding” has been sat on my desk for about a month now unread and its two accompanying CDs unlistened to. I’d figured I would need to set aside some “serious” time before opening it, a wet day perhaps [...]