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Written by a starter bird-watcher with the freshness and passion of any convert, Hanging around for the Albino Dunnock explores the world of wild birds through the seasons of an individual year. It explains encounters with particular wild birds in the scenery of East Anglia, where in fact the creator is rooted. Infrequent journeys farther afield take the listener to truly untamed places in the Outer Hebrides and Eastern European countries. Yet the ordinary experience of bird-watching is also a lot more than just that. The wonder of birds has the power to change lives, as it does the author's, and, as in the case of the all-but-legendary snow leopard, it is more about the search than the result. Personal and elegiac in firmness, the writing is an unusual combination of prose poems based on the actual experience of seeing a particular bird for the very first time, woven with components of science and knowledge traditions, ornithology (and its own punning counterpart, ornitheology), mythology and viewpoint, taxonomy and background, literature and folklore, conveying the wider picture of what it means to be individuals in marriage to aspect. Hanging around for the Albino Dunnock explores the amount to which wildness is inlayed in the individuals psyche and exactly how beauty is central to your mental and emotional well-being while highlighting the careless damage were inflicting on the natural world. Read by Jane Whittenshaw.
