While I’ve been… let’s say “away,” Mark has been just as busy as ever.
While I’ve Been… “Away”
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Teamwork
For those who count themselves regular readers of Mark Avery’s blog, the recent uptick in new book reviews can’t have gone unnoticed. When I recently called up the site, I thought “Blimey! Is Mark doing anything other than reading these days?” However I then noticed by-lines indicating that two of the four most recent reviews were penned by none other than the noted ornithologist Ian Carter acting a as a guest reviewer.
The Climate It Is a’ Changin’
For those already familiar with the British Wildlife collection published by Bloomsbury, the appearance on book shop shelves of a new volume in the series is more or less an instinctive purchase – if you’ve read previous volumes, you’ll buy the next one as well. However for those who might not yet have discovered this remarkable series, relatively recent addition to the great tradition of British natural history writing that it is, Mark comes to the rescue with his most recent Sunday Book Review essay of Trevor Beebee’s “Climate Change and British Wildlife,” the sixth volume in the series.
Gull Ability
Whenever I find myself looking at a gull and not being able to put a species level identification to it, I invariably think back to my childhood alongside the mouth of the Columbia River and lament how much of my youth was wasted in things other than learning to identify the ever-present and seemingly endless numbers of gulls in the area.