From Dublin Bay to a tapestry of light: nature books for Christmas

Another Life: Michael Viney’s pick of the wildlife writing and photography of 2017

Sat, Nov 4, 2017, 06:00

Michael Viney

Dublin Bay’s mudflats: long-billed waders probe for marine food in sediments enriched over centuries with the city’s human waste. Illustration: Michael Viney

Dublin Bay’s mudflats: long-billed waders probe for marine food in sediments enriched over centuries with the city’s human waste. Illustration: Michael Viney

If watching birds were my only joy in life, I should have stayed in Dublin. Choughs and ravens and even whooper swans offer modest choice compared with the gloriously variable avian parade of the capital.

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