Close to Adam Nicolson's home in Sussex sits a forgotten field, overrun by bracken and brambles and haunted by deer, nightingales, ravens, owls, and the warblers that fly north from Africa to breed in English woods. This is his account of finally paying attention to it — building a small shed among the trees, hung with nesting boxes and feeders, and settling in season after season to learn where the birds nest, how they sing, how they mate and fight, and what preys on them. Woven through with literature, science, and philosophy, and alert to how much the natural world now stands to lose, Bird School takes a long, careful look at ordinary birds and what our relationship with the wild is really made of.
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