High Island Blues: The Sport of Birding in the Novels of Ann Cleeves‪.‬

Nothing could have been simpler than 'birdwatching" An activity by that name would have required nothing more than one person, alone, watching birds, any birds ... But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference.... We became a community of birders, with the complications that human societies always have; and although it was the birds that had brought us together, our story became a human story after all.