Starlings in Brighton
Dear Jeff, Chris’ programme sounds wonderful (CBTR 17 Jan) . One detail is incorrect, the press release says that ‘The starlings have passed into history’. As all your Brighton readers will know this isn’t the case you can still see them sweeping over the West Pier at the end of each winter afternoon. cheers, Mathew
New in the Shop
9 January 2012 // Birds //Miscellany
Murmuration – now available in a limited edition DVD! press release: Islands & Rivers are very excited to announce that they have made Murmuration into a really special DVD; with the original Murmuration film in highest quality, plus a second film of the exclusive extended Murmuration footage with the original natural audio, and a third [...]
Win Waxwing Prints!
7 December 2011 // Birds //Miscellany
Our friend Matt Sewell has a load of new news – beautiful prints which are now on sale at Pedlars, a book of British Garden Birds that’s out at early next year and this competition we thought we’d put your way… Win this 50cm x 70cm Giclee print! All you have to do is is [...]
Music and Migration II
4 December 2011 // Birds //Music
Music and Migration II (Second Language, CD) Review by David Hemingway “Well, I’m no ornithologist/I’m no expert on the world,” drawls Piano Magic’s Glen Johnson on his marvellously bleak contribution to the second volume in the Music and Migration series, “But maybe this is our last chance/We’ll go the way of the birds.” The Way [...]
Caught by the River Book Of The Year part 1
1 December 2011 // Birds //Books //Music
Not one, but two titles for 2011′s book of the year award: Roy Wilkinson’s Do It For Your Mum and Mike Carter’s fantastic One Man & His Bike both managed to get unanimous love from the bailiffs and the bait boys at Caught by the River HQ. Special mentions also for: Sara Gran – City [...]
Secret Songs of Birds
Ever wanted to hear a curve-billed thrasher at 50 per cent speed? Roy Wilkinson on an intriguing CD of birdsong from the British Library. The common quail is said to call ‘wet my lips’, seemingly begging for booze, or maybe something else. The snipe’s aerial drumming gives it the nickname The Galloping Horseman Of Lapland. [...]
The Ghost Auks
17 November 2011 // Birds //poetry
by John Barlow: I usually write haiku, or other short poetry, but I wrote this longer poem in response to the whole concept of Ghosts (of Gone Birds) after Clem Fisher kindly showed me the boxes of Great Auk bones in the collection of extinct birds in the World Museum, Liverpool – including those collected [...]
Neighbours, Trespassers and Guests
by Malachy Tallack While we may have exchanged money for this house and garden, it was clear from the start that our ownership could never be exclusive. Our title was a limited one, and meant less than nothing to those long-established occupants with whom we would be sharing our new home. Seen from their side [...]
Murmuration
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
The Hawk
by Jim Farrar. As a kid I loved birds. Specifically birds of prey. Killers all. I can’t explain why. I just did. I could identify other birds. Their eggs. Their nests. But they didn’t have the same hold over my young mind. How could they? Sparrow v Sparrow Hawk. Sparrows are alright. It’s nothing personal [...]
