One Day a Thousand Songs deer

One Day a Thousand Songs deerOn 6 May last year, just before the first light of day, a robin sang the opening notes of the dawn chorus in John Millers Wiltshire garden at precisely 4. 35am. For the rest of that day, until a tawny owl passed over at 9. 23pm, each bird is briefly brought to life with Johns observations and fascinating backstories: their nests, their eggs, their battles, their triumphs. Sound recordist Alex Byng and photographer David White were with John throughout

nostalgia and love

The sheer scope and size was perhaps to prove the book’s downfall because

‘I have my pride

But it’s the mysteries that keep us fishing

•    The Man Who Ate His Boots

Michael Brown

But farming can’t be learned overnight

crafted and used

taken mainly from his six fishing books and from The Field

It floats on the end of fly lines on salmon

a lot of planning

He also writes movingly about the family dogs in his life who have bonded humans together