Declan Murphy has been watching birds since he was a young child and had parents who took him for walks every weekend to the local woods, mountains, estuaries and lakes of Co. Wicklow. He had "no interest in sport of any sort and even less interest in people" - those, that is, who were not David Attenborough, Eamon de Buitlear or Gerrit van Gelderen.
'As engaging an expression of a true naturalist's passion as
Ireland has produced ... So immediate and concerned is [the
author's] account that one comes to live it with him, if spared the
scourge of midges that penetrate his dark and humid hide.' -THE
IRISH TIMES 'We are visited by hope, joy, pathos, tragedy, su
As engaging an expression of a true naturalist's passion as Ireland
has produced ... So immediate and concerned is [the author's]
account that one comes to live it with him, if spared the scourge
of midges that penetrate his dark and humid hide. -- Michael Viney
* Irish Times *
One man's passion brings to life the story of this once-extinct
bird's return to the Republic. -- John Quinn * The Sunday Times
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This book, charting these new arrivals to our shore, captures the
honesty and harshness of the life-cycle so well. If anything, it
shows how even in the most arduous of environments, immense beauty
is to be found. -- Daniel Seery * Dublin Inquirer *
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