I have a rather old bird book! (1 Viewer)

Cyclops · Apr 9, 2007

I was going to list this on ebay but I dont think it would be worth selling on there as its flooeded!
Its 'Call of the Birds' by Charles S Bayne and illustrated by C F Tunnicliffe himself! First published 1929, reprinted 1945. I paid a tenner for it years ago but its just collecting dust now.
Anyone else have it?

davercox · Jun 8, 2012

My wife found this book in a charity shop the other day and got it for me.
So I read it (it's also the 1945 reprint).
Very interesting: a combination of surprisingly careful and accurate observations with utterly OTT anthropomorphism. There's no doubt the guy was a good naturalist, pity he tried to think about what he was observing.
There aren't many of Tunnicliffe's drawings here, mostly just chapter headings, but what there is is very good of course.

Cyclops · Jun 8, 2012

davercox said:
My wife found this book in a charity shop the other day and got it for me.
So I read it (it's also the 1945 reprint).
Very interesting: a combination of surprisingly careful and accurate observations with utterly OTT anthropomorphism. There's no doubt the guy was a good naturalist, pity he tried to think about what he was observing.
There aren't many of Tunnicliffe's drawings here, mostly just chapter headings, but what there is is very good of course.

Crikey this is an old post- 5 years ago when I first joined! I still have the book, will get round to reading it one day...
Dave Cox, is that you from the AP forum? Larry one eye here...

davercox · Jun 9, 2012

Cyclops said:
Dave Cox, is that you from the AP forum? Larry one eye here...

Nope, not me sir.

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