I’m amazed by naturalists: the way they can identify birds, plants and animals, and provide explanation, wonder and insight, seems to me like a particularly useful type of magic. It’s one I’m trying to learn by consciously paying attention, but god is it slow.
In January, my parents gave me . It’s a new edition of the book they took on a three-month loop of the country, spotting 90 species in 100 days.
