Richard Pope

This is an account of the authors big year in Ontario where the goal is to reach 300 birds in a calender year. Parts of this book were funny and made me laugh out loud, other times I almost had to groan at the attempted humour. The writing of this book almost seems like an afterthought to the event and at times appears to be more of a messed up list, which is not in chronological order, than an actual book. It also appeared to be a forum for the author to mention everyone in the Ontario birding fraternity and occasional make comments about them. I am sure much of this was part of the humour that I missed but not knowing most of these people as would be the case with many readers makes it frustrating how often people get mentioned in the book. Having said all this about the content the book itself is beautiful, it feels good in the hand with colour photographs and nice paper, I am amazed that it was published in this way but it would look good on the shelf for anyone that is willing to pay for it (mine came from the local library).… (more)