Bird Life: The Extraordinary World of Ordinary Birds

Enchanting and deeply fascinating, Bird Cottage invites readers into the extraordinary world of Britain’s ordinary garden birds—told by the brilliant, unconventional woman who opened her home and heart to them.

In the late 1930s, Len Howard left behind her life in London, bought a small plot of land in Sussex, and built herself a simple home. This became Bird Cottage—a place where doors and windows were always open to the birds of the garden: great tits, blue tits, robins, blackbirds, wil...