Birding in the UK: British Birds of Village and Countryside, Field and Stream

While we began our trip across the UK last June in London, we certainly didn't stay there! Though the city offered a surprising amount of birds and other wildlife , and was a convenient base for a trip out to wetlands in the Thames estuary for even more encounters with nature, we were eager to travel north, where we would spend time rambling through the quiet countryside and impossibly picturesque…