CLEY MARSH AND ITS BIRDS: FIFTY YEARS AS WARDEN. By Billy Bishop. An Anglia 'Survival' Book.

1983 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp133. Tipped in colour frontispiece portrait and b/w illustrations by Will Garfit, b/w photographs, end-paper maps. Blue-green boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

An Anglia Survival book, edited by Colin Willock. From the days of the "Gentleman gunners" and wildfowling with Frank Richards and Aubrey Buxton through the years of the Norfolk Naturalist's Trust reserve. Wildfowl and waders, bitterns and avocets. Chapters include:- The good old days?; The old-time wildfowlers; Local relations; Bringing back the lost species; New and rare birds; Weather lore; The menace of vermin; A warden's life; Extracts from the Warden's Diary 1937-1979; Some tips on identification; Birds of Cley. An appendix gives a brief history of Cley Marshes. The foreword is by the Duke of Edinburgh.