Bird Watching

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davyd
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Bird Watching

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Hi Everybody,
This is my first post.
I was a young boy when I read my first EB book. It must have been around 1956. I had shown an interest in bird watching when in the Scout Cubs. An older boy lent me a book which I would love to be able to give to my grandson. The plot was basically a young boy ( can't remember names) who had to go live with his Grandfather who lived a more rural existence than the boy was accustomed to. His grandfather helped him set up a bird table and described all the garden birds that visted it. They persisted through the winter feeding the birds but Grandad insisted they took it down and stop feeding the birds when summer came.

Can anyone suggest the book title!

Thanks if you can!

Davyd
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I'm not totally sure about this but here's a few possibilities;

http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book ... r%27s+Book" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (Janet and John taken for nature rambles by Mr Meredith)

http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book ... +Uncle+Nat" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book ... r%27s+Book" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (Similar premises to the above)

You can also browse all the books about birds here: http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/sear ... earch=bird" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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"Listen to its terrible groans and creaks!" yelled Julian, almost beside himself with impatience.


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Re: bird watching

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Another possibility is Birds of Our Gardens:

http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book ... ur+Gardens" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Tony and Mollie go to stay with their Uncle Jack (Jack Sparrow) and Aunt Jane in the countryside village of Meadowfield. They live in Sparrow Cottage. In Chapter 2 Uncle Jack helps the children make a bird table, and over the course of the book Tony and Mollie learn a lot about garden birds. The bird table is taken down one warm spring day because, says Uncle Jack in Chapter 19, "We have fed the birds well all the winter, and now they must work for their living, and give us a bit of help! There are plenty of insects about, and I see greenfly on my rose-ramblers already. The birds must help me by clearing them away. If I feed them now, they will not work for themselves and their young ones." Of course Tony and Mollie continue to take an interest in the birds, beginning by putting up nesting-boxes.
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Re: Bird Watching

Post by davyd »

Thanks Anita!
Your second suggestion 'Birds Of Our Garden' may well be correct. It was such a long time ago and being a boy at the time I may well have forgotten about the little girl.
I will search it out and hopefully remind myself of it.
Davyd
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