{"id":757,"date":"2013-04-23T19:59:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/personal-favourites\/a-splendid-slim-volume\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:59:55","slug":"a-splendid-slim-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/personal-favourites\/a-splendid-slim-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"A splendid slim volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">A splendid slim volume<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: center\">Hi Steve<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/abellerols.jpg\" alt=\"Bee-eaters, Merops apiaster. Illustration from \u201cFlying over the Pyrenees, standing on the plains\u201d\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just thought I should drop you a line to let you know how much <strong>I&#8217;m enjoying your book.<\/strong> Although perhaps a reluctant purchaser (having experienced some rather dull ornithological offerings previously), I must confess that your mix of personal anecdote interwoven with some interesting interaction with some unusual avian species has got me <strong>absolutely enthralled.<\/strong> It helps, of course, that we have met and that now, having participated in the recent tour and been uplifted by seeing some of the species under discussion, I can put at least some of the memoirs in context. It did also cross my mind that, if I had read the book before the tour, we might have had some more interesting discussions over breakfast and dinner!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, congratulations on a <strong>splendid slim volume<\/strong> and thanks again for leading us on an excellent tour.<\/p>\n<p><em>Peter\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here Peter is referring to &#8220;Flying over the Pyrenees, standing on the plains&#8221;. Most of you haven&#8217;t read this &#8220;splendid slim volume&#8221;. That&#8217;s easy to rectify:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildlifebooks.com\/product_details.php?area_id=1&amp;nav_id=23&amp;prd_id=7939\" title=\"Flying over the Pyrenees, standing on the plains\">Subbuteo Natural History Books\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/flying.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\" alt=\"Flying over the Pyrenees, standing on the plains\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A splendid slim volume Hi Steve \u00a0 Just thought I should drop you a line to let you know how much I&#8217;m enjoying your book. Although perhaps a reluctant purchaser (having experienced some rather dull ornithological offerings previously), I must confess that your mix of personal anecdote interwoven with some interesting interaction with some unusual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-favourites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-cd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}