Why garden birds have so much to teach us with Adam Nicolson - Episode 218

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4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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There’s a rich, complex, and utterly rewarding natural world that co-exists alongside ours, and relies on our gardens for food and safety – the often surprising world of small garden birds. This week on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, Adam Nicolson shares insights from his new book, Bird School, which explores the secret life of these tiny avian visitors, so often unfurling right under our noses in our gardens and green spaces. In this episode, discover: The true reasons behind the dawn chorus, i...

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly
0:06.3	beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
0:19.8	and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of
0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraban.com
0:29.1	today to discover even more.
0:46.4	Welcome to Grow Cook-Eater Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and various different guests.
0:56.5	And today I'm rejoined by Adam Nicholson, my husband, because we are going to talk about his book, Bird School, which is out this week.
0:59.7	And I, for one, am incredibly excited about it.
1:03.9	I know Adam is too, but I actually think lots of you will love to hear about it.
1:05.5	So welcome, Adam.
1:07.1	Thanks very much.
1:07.9	Thank you for having me.
1:12.5	Why don't you talk to start with about why you got into this book, apart from me nagging you to do it? That was the main reason. Absolutely. No, I think the
1:20.3	thing is that I spent all my life being really rather indifferent to birds, the small, all the
1:26.0	birds were surrounded by. I'd had a thing
1:27.9	about sea birds, you know, we used to go when I was a boy on holiday to Scotland, an island
1:32.9	full of sea birds and became completely obsessed with them, but all the little birds, the little
1:37.8	birds of the garden and the wood, the tits and the finches, are around us all day every day.
1:45.0	I really haven't paid any attention to them.
1:47.0	I think along with most of the country in a way,
1:52.0	I know that people love birds, love small birds,
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