Field Notes From a Hidden City - An Urban Nature Diary - Esther Woolfson

An inspiring, thought-provoking diary of a year spent observing the natural world of a city, which measures our relationship to the plants, animals and weather all around us. 

against the background of austere and beautiful Aberdeen, Woolfson observes the seasons, the streets and the quiet places of her city over the course of a year. she considered the geographic, atmospheric and environmental elements which bring  such diverse animal life into such close proximity. In absorbing prose, she writes of the animals among us: the birds, the rats and squirrels, the spiders and the insects.  her close examination of the natural world leaders her to question our prevailing attitudes to urban and non-urban wildlife and to look again at the values we places on the lives of individual species.