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Call of the Kingfisher is the enchanting debut from composer and
wildlife recordist, Nick Penny. This love letter to a short stretch
of Northamptonshire's River Nene celebrates all the wild things
that live there, especially the kingfishers. Uniquely, it comes
with bonus audio content to complement the text, accessed via QR
codes. Nick has walked beside the river at Oundle for four decades.
But for a whole year he gave the waterway all the time it asked
for. The more attention he gave it, the more he saw the kingfishers
and heard their high whistling calls. Set in a lovely but
little-known part of England, Call of the Kingfisher relates a year
by the river, the author's experiences there and the different
people he meets. Other strands are woven around the elusive
feathered protagonist: explorations of local history and landscape,
from Roman and Bronze Age sites to watermills and centuries-old
stone churches; visits at different times and to different places
in the valley; homages to naturalists who lived nearby; forest
dawns and dusks listening to the precious song of nightingales. But
the background tapestry is the sights and sounds, and greens and
browns, of the riverbank, shot through with the blue and orange
threads of a kingfisher's glowing feathers. As a composer and
wildlife recordist, Nick has a deep interest in sounds in the
natural environment. He both uses the local landscape and wildlife
sounds as inspiration, and brings fresh insights into the sounds of
the countryside. The book includes access to a number of
high-quality birdsong recordings made alongside the River Nene -
audio soundbites of nature's riches, from kingfishers and
nightingales to owls and cuckoos. This is a book about the things
that can be seen and heard when we approach nature with patience
and curiosity. It celebrates people who have used that focus to
help preserve wildlife and pass on their knowledge to future
generations. Above all, Call of the Kingfisher serves as a call to
appreciate what we've got, wherever we are, and to use our ears as
much as our eyes when we experience the natural world.
This book offers a wealth of ideas for making satisfying musical
instruments from everyday materials. It is aimed at children aged
eight and upwards who can work on their own with occasional adult
help. The book will include 12 practical projects, with step by
step instructions and photographs. There are also sections on
choosing appropriate materials, and design and decoration
techniques. The book encourages children to develop their own
ideas, as well as offering tried and tested design and technology
techniques which are guaranteed to work.
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