Birders Twitter Christmas Special!

In what can only really be described as a righteous act of valour, Jonny H, DDL and myself convened an impromptu Birders Twitter - on Christmas day itself!

Irresponsible really. Totally out of control.

The episode focussed on midwifery prowess, my finding a Cattle Egret and our three favoured books, roughly based on; formative, influential and up-to-date.

If for some inexplicable reason you had something better to do than listen live, on Christmas day, then you can replay the magnificence here:

So, with out further a do - here our three choices and some honourable mentions:

Jonny:

My formative pick was the Book of British Birds - Readers Digest/ AA

My second choice was The Big Bird Race by Bill Oddie and local birder David Tomlinson

Finally, I chose Peter Scott's Coloured Key to the Wildfowl of the World. All enlightened, #Wildfowl #elite birders will agree with me on this.

Jonny Holliday

Jonny's formative choice was The Shell Guide

Jonny then went for Dim Wallace's 'Beguiled By Birds'

Finally and sensibly, Jonny went for the Collins - now in it's third edition

DDL

DDL started with The Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification

DDL's second choice was The Sound Approach to birding

DDL's final pick was the more recent Flight Identification of European Passerines

Honourable mentions

We then went onto make several honourable mentions, including:

• Bird Therapy - Joe Harkness

• Birding Frontiers and Challenge Series - Martin Garner

• Birds of Buckon - Mark Thomas

• Birds of Europe - Lars Jonsson

• Flight Identification of Raptors of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East - Dick Forsman

• Red Sixty Seven - Kit Jewitt

• Birds of Spurn - Andy Roadhouse

Finally, a helpful reminder that our very own DDL wrote Birdwatching London: