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Best Birdwatching sites in Norfolk

Â£6.50

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Neil Glenn

covering 70 of the best birdwtching sites in Norfolk from the famous to the less well known. Detailed maps of all reserves. Paperback 224pp. Also available new Â£14.99

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Guardian Spirit of the East Bank

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Â£34.00

GUARDIAN SPIRIT OF THE EAST BANK A Celebration of the Life of R. A. Richardson
Moss Taylor

The story of a legend.Richard Richardson was a remarkable ornithologist and bird artist, a well know figure for many years at Cley. This book features many fascinating and amusing anedotes from his many friends on the East Bank. There are also also many extracts from Richard's birdwatching notebooks between 1939 & 1970.

Hardback; 232pp. 2002

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The Birds of Norfolk

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Taylor et al. As a result of its unique position on the east coast, Norfolk is arguably the premier county for birds in Britain. Its diversity of habitats attracts and shelters a wide range of breeding species, and its coastline facing the North Sea ensures a wealth of migrant visitors. Norfolk's probably also attracts more visiting birdwatchers than any other county.

This new book, the most comprehensive work so far on the county's avifauna, brings the record up to date. It has been written by a team of almost forty experts from within the county, and includes many of the evocative and atmospheric passages from earlier works, as well as presenting all relevant records up to the end of 1998'.... The Birds of Norfolk (paperback) 552 pp. (post free UK)

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Norfolk ;A Birdwatcher's site guide

Â£12.50

Benstead, P/Rowland, S

Covering more than 60 sites in Norfolk. North Norfolk,West Norfolk, East Norfolk, the Broads and the Brecks. Each site entry has clear easy to use map and text with details of location, birds, opening times and access and other amenities.

Ring bound with clear plastic cover. 106pp.

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Cley Marsh and its Birds

Â£19.50

Billy Bishop.Cley has been described as'the Mecca of ornithologists for the last 140 years', and Billy Bishop was warden of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust Nature Reserve at Cley from 1937, eleven years after it had been started, until his retirement in 1978. His memoirs are a fascinating account of a world which has changed dramatically, from the days of the Gentleman Gunners whose great objective in life was to shoot the rarest birds for their collection, but who had an unrivalled knowledge of their subject, to the modern methods of conservation and management of habitat. Billy Bishop has some marvellous stories to tell, both of past characters, gunmen and wildfowlers, and of the birdwatchers and photographers of today. But his book is also the story of the successful creation of a superb reserve, and of the many unusual birds which have been seen there. A checklist of the birds sighted at Cley, with brief notes on their rarity, is included, as are extracts from his diary as warden, with the highlights of forty years' work, including the return of lost breeding species such as the black- tailed godwit, the avocet and the bittern, and the story of how an injured bittern which he had rescued helped to solve the vexed question of how bitterns boomed. This delightful book will be a must for the bird- watcher, but will also appeal to a much wider audience. Order details here

Hardback; Line drawings and frontis by Wilf Garfit.1983.133pp.b/w plts, sketches and maps. fine in d/w 2 copies in stock

The Birds of Suffolk

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William H Payn

Describing the physical features of the county, and their relation to bird life; the influence of agriculture and forestry on the distribution of species; its bird reserves, and areas of ornithological interest. There are sections on migration, on the avifauna of the county fifty years ago (1912 book published 1962) and on the changes that have taken place since. Information and records for the book have been provided by more than 100 observers.

Hardback;238pp.Black & white photos and colour plate of Bearded Tit. Condition generally good. Ex lib Price Â£15.00 Barrie & Rockliff 1962Order details here

Saga of Swans and Harrier over the Fen

Â£25.00

Kenneth Richmond 1st ed 1949

map' This book. which contains two narratives of bird life, will delight the wildfowler, the bird watcher and the nature lover. Saga of Swans is largely the result of the authors observations of a solitary Whooper Swan which spent two years on a Lincolnshire mere. during that time there were ample opportunities for studying the the swan at close quarters and of getting to know it as an individual and as a character. The life of the swan is pictured ;his home life in Iceland; his flight with his family to the Outer Isles, thence to Solway, the Northumbrian lochs, Derwentwater and Crowland Wash, and his sojourn there for two seasons with a pair of Mute Swans.

Harrier over the Fen describes the private life of one of the rarest of British breeding birds, the Marsh Harrier. Here too is a tale crowded in incident, yet with a background which is strictly authentic. This is a world of sedge and dyke, peopled by the skulking Bittern, the sly Rail and above all, floating like a spirit of the waters, the figure of Girriak, handsomest and most majestic of fenhawks'...,(inside front cover) Order details here

1949 1st ed. Hardback. Excellent condition in dust wrapper.

A Season of Birds A Norfolk diary 1911

Â£12.00

At the turn of the century (20th) a rich Cambridge undergraduate, the Hon. Edwin Montagu, visited the Norfolk Broads and befriended a local boy, Jim Vincent. Their excursions together formed the basis of a friendship that lasted nearly twenty years, cutting across the barriers of social position and background. Later Montagu returned to Hickling for the shooting, and Vincent, now his keeper, taught Montagu the lore of the Broads. As his interest in the area developed, Montagu, by now a minister in Asquith's government, decided to preserve a bird diary kept by Jim Vincent in an unusual and delightful way. He commissioned the eminent Edwardian bird artist,G.E. Lodge, R.A, to illustrate it. This version of the book which has become a classic was published in 1980.The 152 pages feature the work of G.E.Lodge, with a map of Hickling Broad. Hardback.

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The Birds of Suffolk

Â£38.99

Steve Piotrowski

This new country avifauna looks at the birdlife in Suffolk - one of the most important birding counties in England. Suffolk is relatively underdeveloped, with nationally important wetlands and heathlands, and a long, varied coastline.

This book examines in detail the status of every species on the Suffolk list, as well as looking at geology, climate and ecology.

Paperback;500pp.32 pages of Colour photographs 2003

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