Birdbrain

My parents gave me this book for Christmas in the late 60s. I'm not sure if the present sparked my interest in birds or that they gave it because I was already interested. When I look at it now I can still get a spark of that feeling I had when I was 8 or 9. Some of the illustrations seemed to me to be straight out of something like Noggin the Nog. Not in style but in other worldliness - the birds of prey in particular. Reading it now it's interesting to see how the relative scarcity of certain birds has changed. Kites were few and far between; sparrows and starlings ubiquitous.
Yes, I was stuck for a blip today.