DIDYOU KNOW?

Naturalist Richard

Fitter wrote the first of the Collins’ pocket guides in 1952, about British birds, but he also ‘collected’ bird inn signs: each time he passed a pub with a bird in its name he’d jot it down. Started as ‘light relief’ during World

War II, his list eventually stretched to hundreds of inns and featured almost

40 species including swans, eagles, parrots, wrens, kites and hens.