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| S W Mott's recent mention of an NN favourite, Gordon Manley's Climate and the British Scene (15/6/10 under the Bird Migration topic) prompts me to revive the subject of favourites first taken up in the old forum during the summer of 2008. One of my favourites is Brian Moss' masterly account of the intricate interplay of fauna and flora within the ecological and biological systems in "The Broads". A complex subject explained well. Another, because it was my very first NN, is Desmond Nethersole-Thompson's "The Greenshank". It was a revelation to me as a schoolboy in the early 1950s to find a whole book devoted to just a single species of bird! And not just any bird but the mysterious one I had just succeeded in identifying on my father's farm. Nicholson's "Birds and Men" received as a school prize in 1951 is still a treasured possession. This was complemented in the 70's by Murton's "Man and Birds". After all these years, I am reading Gilmour and Walters "Wild Flowers" and find it still flows very well, as do many of the early volumes, not least "World of Spiders" and "A Country Parish". I am inclined to agree with S M W about "Grouse" but did not bother to get "Wildfowl". Kind regards, John B
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