"Life With Birds" tells the story of how Rob Hume came to love birds and birdwatching, taking us through his boyhood and teens and his years at the RSPB. Rob Hume has travelled all over the world watching birds, and he includes his reflections and memories of birds from places as far afield as the US, Israel and Africa. He is also an accomplished artist, and his illustrations bring a powerful additional quality to the book. His gentle humour and wisdom permeate every page, making the book a must-read for everyone who cares about birds, conservation and the countryside.
Foreword; 1 Beginnings - Brooks and Byways; 2 Secrets and Magic in
Essex; 3 Ladybirds and Libraries; 4 A Television World of Adventure; 5 Board
Rulers and Beanstalks; 6 North to the Highlands; 7 Chasewater - Wildfowl,
Waders and Spoil Heaps; 8 Putting in the Hours; 9 Gulls and Great Grey
Shrikes; 10 Swansea and the Gower; 11 Join the Club; 12 Summer on the
Berwyns; 13 Merlins and Mid-Wales; 14 Scilly in the Seventies; 15 Real Work
at Last: the RSPB; 16 Paste-Ups and Personalities; 17 Lammergeiers and
Griffons in the Pyrenees; 18 Stetsons and Whooping Cranes in Texas; 19
California in a Wet January; 20 Wild Africa; 21 Swans on the Nile; 22 The
Double Rasp; Further Reading.
Rob Hume is one of Britain's most respected and well-known birdwatchers. He has worked for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for 30 years, and was the Editor of its members' magazine, Birds, for 16 years. He lives in Bedfordshire.
