Photo: Abby Eaton (Great White Egret)

​If you have a favourite book about wildlife you can recommend to others, please let us have details.  

Books so far recommended include:

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape our Futures, by Merlin Sheldrake (Bodley Head, £20)  'A fascinating book about how fungi form our world.'

Diary of a Young Naturalist, by Dara McAnulty (Little Toller). Dara, who lives in Northern Ireland, is autistic, and this is a combination of nature book and 'warm portrait of a close-knit family'. 

His Imperial Majesty: A Natural History of the Purple Emperor, by Matthew Oates (Bloomsbury, £20).  Oates has been involved in the rewilding project at Knepp Castle Estate in West Sussex.

The Orchid Hunter, by Leif Bersweden (who gave a talk to the Society in November 2018)

The 'Field Guide' series

The Hive, by Bee Wilson - 'The story of the honeybee and Us'

Devil Birds, by Derek Bromhall - 'The life of the swift'

The Leaping Hare, by George Ewart Evans and David Thomson

Nature by Night by Vincent Albouy and Jean Chevallier - a guide to observation and identification

Pocket Guide to the Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, by Richard Lewington.

The RHS's Wildaboutgardens website has published a leaflet on how to encourage bats into your garden.  Find it at:
http://live-twt-d8-national-wag.pantheonsite.io/sites/default/files/2018-03/Stars_of_the_Night_Sky%20%281%29.pdf


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