Bird bonds

THIS highly acclaimed memoir is not a bird book and not about birding, rather it is a story of someone who came across a young Magpie, took it home to look after it and became paired for life, and a man who had raised a Jackdaw in a similar way. It reveals altogether different associations between people and birds from the norm in Birdwatch. The cover blurb calls it ‘a story of transformation, from wild to tame, sanity to madness, freedom to captivity and back again.’