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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 |
You can't leave insects, they're the best bit!
I find books are too heavy to take out into the field so I just take a small cheap digital camera, snap away like mad at anything interesting, and id it when I get home. The only book I will take out with me is my bird book, cos I can never get a decent photo of birds.