Birdwatchingwatching by Alex Horne

Twitchers are often depicted as solitary and obsessive people, but the reward of seeing wild birds going about their lives, a flurry of feathers in a tranquil landscape,
is available to all with a little patience. Alex Horne decides to take on his ornithologist father in an contest to see the most birds in a year and in the process learns as much about birdwatchers and he does about the object of their passion.