Feathered friends and a prickly affair

Damien Enright on bird-watching and massaging hedgehogs.

A NEW bird book reached me in the post this week. Bird-watching is increasingly popular with those who like to wander out of doors but to enjoy this book, one does not have to wander at all: Ireland’s Garden Birds — How to Identify, Attract and Garden for Birds, provides all one could need for enjoyable domestic bird-watching.

The book is written by doyens of Irish birding, Oran O’Sullivan and Jim Wilson, and published by The Collins Press at €16.99.