A review by margaret21
A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When the Birds Sing by Richard Smyth

4.0

A delightful, idiosyncratic and fascinating book about the place of bird song in our lives. Smyth is a wry, self-deprecating writer who draws not only on his own experience, but on music - all kinds of music from every period, on literature, on social history, on science, on previous students and lovers of birds, on landscape, to develop this entertaining yet well-researched read. I finished it resolving ti be more attentive to birdsong, an important if ephemeral backdrop to our daily lives.