Crow Country Book ☆ 224 pages

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Crow Country Book ☆ 224 pages ☆ ❰Read❯ ➫ Crow Country Author Mark Cocker – Gwairsoft.co.uk One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare valley From the moment he watched the mu One night Mark Cocker followOne night Mark Cocker followed the roiling deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare valley From the moment he watched the multitudes blossom as a mysterious dark flower above the night woods these gloriously commonplace birds were unsheathed entirely from their ordina Sublime nature writing Mark Cocker writes of his absorption with corvids particularly rooks This many layered book explores the birds themselves their environment their behaviour their history the history and geology of their environment the nature and wonder of absorption Towards the end of the book Cocker uotes another naturalist Edward Wilson who wrote Humanity is exalted not because we are far above other living creatures but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life Hear hearTo share some of Cocker’s wonder look up Rooks and Jackdaws at Buckenham Carrs 2 if the link doesn’t work it’s on YouTube and see tens of thousands of birds gathering together to roost at dusk on the Norfolk Broads It’s an awesome sightThis is one of those few books I would give 6 stars if it was possible

Text Ù Crow Country Ô Mark Cocker

Richness hidden in the raucous crow song he calls 'our landscape made audible' Crow Country is a prose poem in a long tradition of English pastoral writing It is also a reminder that 'Crow Country' is not 'ours' it is a landscape which we cohabit with thousands of other species and these richly complex fellowships cannot be valued too highly A lovely meditation on one of England's most common birds highlighting the richness that can come from really paying attention Enough to have me ready to dust the binoculars off on the weekend and go wandering the Merri Creek

Mark Cocker Ô Crow Country Kindle

Crow CountryRiness They became for Cocker a fixation and a way of life Cocker goes in search of them journeying from the cavernous deadened heartland of South England to the hills of Dumfriesshire experiencing spectacular failures alongside magical successes and epiphanies Step by step he uncovers the complexities of the birds' inner lives the unforeseen A book to read slowly to savour each and every chapter And still I’m sad to reach the endCocker is not afraid to share his passion He writes poetic prose to paint the bird filled scenes that have fired his interest Other readers criticised the authorial dominance throughout but that was its strength for meI liked the way he offered myths and misunderstandings alongside hard facts In reading about the Cocker’s rooks and crows I learned a lot about myself too There are anecdotes and images within that I’ll never forget Like the ones who sung for no other reason than that the end of a harsh winter was in sightIt now feels impossible not to feel thrilled when looking at the sky and noticing dark birds among the white