Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

A Garden Bird Year
A Garden Bird Year
A Garden Bird Year
Ebook288 pages4 hours

A Garden Bird Year

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars

()

Read preview

About this ebook

Britain’s gardens are a vast, living landscape and the home to hundreds of species of birds. Learn to pay attention to these visitors to your own garden or local park and you’ll have a front-row seat to the unfolding drama that is the garden bird’s year.

As dawn breaks across your back garden, if you were paying attention, you would notice that the robin and the blackbird are always the first birds to arrive. These ground hunters have large eyes, so don’t mind the dim light of the early morning. And that’s just the beginning of what you can learn watching your own back garden. Ornithologist Mike Toms has spent a year avidly observing his own garden, and the result is a comprehensive picture of the lives of garden birds.
From the crowded yet quiet January garden populated by migratory fieldfares and bramblings, to the riotous gardens of spring, filled with songbirds competing for mates, the garden ecosystem changes throughout the year. Learn to spot these changes, to greet the arrival of the swifts in May and the new crop of fledgling goldfinches and blackbirds in June, and you’ll find a new world opening up to you.
A Garden Bird’s Year is the perfect introduction to this world. Supremely readable, it explains biology and behaviour to paint a picture of the lives of common bird species, while also offering practical information for watching and feeding the birds in your own backyard. Toms details birds’ preferences for particular plants, seeds and feeders, so you can learn to attract different species to your own garden. He also charts fascinating recent adaptations – urban birds sleep later than their rural counterparts, probably because cities are on average a few degrees warmer, and they sing either earlier or later, to avoid competing with local traffic; and the balance of migratory birds to Britain is being affected by the world’s changing climate. Many species of garden birds are threatened, but there is much that each one of us can do to support them, to attract them, and to help them thrive through the year.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 8, 2021
ISBN9780008470623

Read more from Mike Toms

Related to A Garden Bird Year

Related ebooks

Nature For You

View More

Related articles

Reviews for A Garden Bird Year

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings

0 ratings0 reviews

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

    Book preview

    A Garden Bird Year - Mike Toms

    4dbook_preview_excerpt.html\Y$qJ~Θhp(Cq@32*ٙň̮.|s&<=X0\"|y|/>OK /zX0wl??W \n|.~^:t瀿ŧ.x<"un'm9nzϋta9%Ccw q/.tO>8'0$<,)Y^~A랆" pɵ]/?zקn 4q?mVُ\e{I*;}`s7Hbg `Xd؏ wkcVyAŃ\ltUpXMDnMnɻY.MIdINt'>dEqn?!yD~=uqO~w1 D0ډ73câ~X' ЏiH8Y5gY.Zk Ns;qH!3T|贼f=7f٬"w04T[ΧQoV'2 Nk.X^rq8TAԠa!w;m؋ Z#'{,6:u>8CpՔuaŭDGG;{n'n鼧IP+`EǟPKF@A.+!L:Sdb m5?p8&ZϿxj+~MM'>k 9ys{YQ~rI)oÚ߉X ڒ`ELgK_="W:+=I%rTlHf;U3pmnQ@rNŀ!$CR><t'ɼyQ ?_EaH;!ˁ(j8p ^}P#+޹56a!rqʼoɪzv$w|g+5c¡ɢ)R*jݻE|x|yEy`kxf;J!f[)mCdӡIjr:G9SE ;ݙI>`oP-!225!w~7yO{a.r.J94t@"f.JNG,NZFR~D.,FCe4^mЄ5bϊë2|a}RЊ+Ar{5 [݂6f$s庈՛kzpҚ4MMY0n^>J91nݛw߽Z(Yer0L5({Q!*#uV} |) c7KiZ $츤FUgZc[=CCF!0ӚZSt PxV1I1*[\6v>asslw(oYhS,@ڑ\H+F>t $Vk,Xg`] M `؄U(5v A y%D=֙O~7,iS EOnL;Zr8=UKHi0dez0S]GXt&왤8JuVKnRTsa] 8,#߶ykb,Gjq܇wkP{¨΀~mJwDS%M')b&Mҵ`DG~#BB*K#1#eLyM+ PW;oZoD$]CC7~駿f9,2 h{Ug׋(w>Y)ehg]r}8ZUB#<@UaWzq4ov@AK@7V}_w~in.Lsn֨Kkɂx q]:fFjFzUi{xvjW_~ k*[/,}6]>I5;ɒ'_; ~çU kO9JAMw| ]m%BRu~2MYZEr;p>33Q.+V?몼v9蛟,(vڙ4E_fRa+(ôE09!BfKҖ$i;lmu) 5x^\(6kH%"&4=AƶXDhY@3GS e@VY0Cz#`Vȉ )BN0*S Kc p d`6=:3Ib=Z!T"理U(%|.?_>I~~b'vs2:*_[«Kj.7dmYk.r,lTգ KWw>nj(_>gv`(Lb@J %K+K%;dX &Q7/u穀 \SCFh j) Td;mH#}"P<մTTa yaBЧe]j;D̘ـѣe%gtP|cC҈`#`j{Ifs(7AL(y5ȱ ]Ѧ\T]J;ni5"'N >6n)ϜQ^N;6o$_7E#8*_Կ6GB };xX\dmdM~P>OKqF٭ݬ.^A8?C fP2߄h#ڀ2h602JtMwNtqoft[Uuc⠊`iye LZGUuەKx^P|Q0C0A\-jy5.~ض$ljYENݜyu#$ @ǪLfr>l4>f-[Z:Q`V)DHɲguT]"Y!ZP@s.m+`v۲r歜1к*?6qdzaʎ%=|Q ਖ਼cygԥRN.10K5D% V%Mal؆'V4>ʵsF_1Lѣ)߲nF L۪M=@.iS' ɸ7aI厧Rjy1yɷ!}DICX W|n)VdvְɰjAdHAa볂 rejhT`~]5eV0A6eu=jIvhAi xSxE@Kܒ[6- &)rpp ;wqxY|ʠ *l6>SpɋǪn^ IG1O7#P+{ڄ/^,aIeĢc) ̑}uš2aγZgSgx"b;V smy#* m{sҺ+[ڢ<8qlM=W-ɐ}-:8W(ѻU;le+FAlN՞[cc;Vld΢/:`"A)MCxZ]e+GT* 6r_Q"m M}EM=yf:ٺ&nд=Q+qL,0pAmDP#| ${{"pfOLyu_\-8gbm5MاOyN-9%m3x(㾘+8e~D[s$li}5d|0?FA'ʜˋ$32M8t~+!D<(sX'hP}O7WN~YPR$m5z[AvMjZRwMUj40[59'5kJR.SE*보8CvlZKZD1;.yWa^t lΒYGVijJsF: 1$V <<$k:=Zv6 M}>Сb&0/ 5Ks VYUFLlQseW"kpmIeP15幧2IwK56C(a&c-tDX18e,IRJ~^<:\ugz*8r*K.Xg7]$!* uZCt9o[5H |@17EsQK;[;2+9'?r@W u\'7<ڤU.}X0t8GM7AIy+u1)69e-W%)g@8ѷ~gbB?w[}>vE 5-dV7¬u9.\[6IY(+C5id*4nV fka۩'қ_ZS_đb%ڼѺU,{F=뷪t;07|tx`-$G_1jjQdHvQ_!--J|<?ܱq:J4Sd2Ԏ^)Rw|2~GX8[[Nm& mJ_>;.]%0YCkZq6.$|L`@$ y›iF;ʂ֧]evseXl%R% XXq!roٞ2.KC@sfen6xR# ôF;&'Xx#Az1B35*%=SqM/_ WތK}(TFuQg ¶fjd.@MuS%%J3Nfzc٨}mf;vw=dm|ÓKiyV2@9皋IQ! c)&sj2̚Z[Ol0塾1Na +uhsXf V#r|ci@kVd5#ٵV&B囉{mr[8=8YM]-Hd/0R`zrqQ3;i/YSz5d -/=eL8=iO4۾yx?^iP!AY {d-Ohd8\,lCAp&vWKkͩcQL? h̜9!c=Ur3+),*)k$E~g~IܼFs`]Rw< ,Ky_˓@^Pu_A0zlr{W.mPQm#@ZBigbC:
    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1