{"product_id":"a-year-with-the-birds","title":"A Year with the Birds","description":"\u003cp\u003eGood hardcover in original gilt-blocked cloth. Rubbing and wear to covers and spine as with age, mainly edges and corners. Corners bumped, spine bumped and worn. Foxing to endpages. Third edition, reprinted 1891.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten by English ornithologist William Warde Fowler, with i\u003c\/span\u003ellustrations by Bryan Hook. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcerpted from the preface:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis little book is nothing more than an attempt to help those who love birds, but know little about them, to realize something of the enjoyment which I have gained, in work-time as well as in holiday, for many years past, from the habit of watching and listening for my favorites.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat I have to tell, such as it is, is told in close relation to two or three localities: an English city, an English village, and a well-known district of the Alps. This novelty (if it be one) is not likely, I think, to cause the ordinary reader any difficulty. Oxford is so familiar to numbers of English people apart from its permanent residents, that I have ventured to write of it without stopping to describe its geography; and I have purposely confined myself to the city and its precincts, in order to show how rich in bird-life an English town may be. The Alps, too, are known to thousands, and the walk I have described in Chapter III if the reader should be unacquainted with it, may be easily followed by reference to the excellent maps of the Oberland in the guide-books of Ball or Baedeker. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are few days, from March to July, when even the shortest stroll may not reveal something of interest to the careful watcher. It was pleasant, this brilliant spring morning, to find that a Redstart, perhaps the same individual noticed on page 120, had not forgotten my garden during his winter sojourn in the south; and that a pair of Pied Flycatchers, the first of their species which I have known to visit us here, were trying to make up their minds to build their nest in an old gray wall, almost within a stone's throw of our village church.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53051942863155,"sku":"BC1891U","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0888\/4515\/6659\/files\/a-year-with-birds.jpg?v=1771109880","url":"https:\/\/buteobooks.com\/products\/a-year-with-the-birds","provider":"Buteo Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}