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Tonight, we\u2019ll be reading another chapter from the book \u201cBird Watching\u201d published in 1901 by Edmund Selous, titled \u201cWatching Birds in the Greenwoods.\u201d\n\nIf you enjoy this episode, be sure to listen to our \u201cBlackbirds\u201d episode, \u201cWatching Birds from a Haystack\u201d episode, and \u201cWatching Seabirds\u201d, from this series as well.\n\nThe author started as a conventional naturalist of his time, but Selous developed a hatred of the common practice at the time of killing animals for scientific study and was a pioneer of bird-watching as a method of scientific study. The author was a solitary man and was not well known in ornithological circles. He avoided both the company of ornithologists and reading their observations so as to base his conclusions entirely on his own observations.\n\nThe word \u201cgreenwood\u201d refers to both unseasoned firewood and a forest in full leaf, as in summer.\n\n\u2014 read by 'V' \u2014\nSign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to\xa0snoozecast.com/plus!\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices