Lutz Huesch

Would not be without this guide - we have all sorts of rather rare and beautiful birds on our 20 ha conservation area, and I've just taken out my old Canon 7 again today to capture the Regent Bower-bird in all its black and yellow beauty! An immensely valuable guide ever since I bought my first edition (don't remember which one, though)...

I've just started re-reading The Idiot - after a miserable attempt by an on-line publisher to pass off Ulysses as one of the 50 pieces of literature you have to read before you die, what rubbish that was - and believe the Russian is the world's best writer, ever! Such sensitivity, such gift of observation, a true masterpiece. (Needless to say I cried a few timesover the passages with the birds, and the smal children...) If you still haven't read it, take a 'sickie' from work and start reading it, now!