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Originally Posted by Rainbowmum  Okay my favourite game on WAB at the moment is to find a photo then sit with my guide books and try and identify it and see if I am right. But my books are letting me down lol. I only have Collins Complete British Wildlife, The RSPB British birds handbook and the Kingfisher Concise field guide, Animal, Plants of Britain and Europe. I have a few Collins Gems too.
I want a book (or a few) I can take out in the field with me that is not as heavy as an encyclopedia. Most are big and bulky (desribed as Pocket!!) and they seem to contain info on most of Europe, which as I see myself staying in the UK for the forseeable future I don't need as much detail on.
I wondered if there are any identification books that might be more useful to me (not to mention lighter).
I am not too bad on birds and now have developed an interest in identifying the following :
Fungi, Wild Flowers, Trees, I am leaving the insects and such like for now figuring I have enough to be going on with.
Thank you xxx |
A good way to get field guides is to visit secondhand book stores or charity shops. You can pick up bargains and if it's for the field as you've said, if the copy gets some wear and tear, it wont matter so much. The basics for species would be the same,you'd just have to be wary about any distributon maps if the copy is fairly old. This may have been revised. Julie
