With its enchanting song striking orange bill & endearing willingness to share our living space the blackbird is one of our best-loved birds But robins swifts goldfinches & blue tits can captivate us equally & in The Blackbird Diaries Karen Lloyd shares her deep-rooted affection for all our treasured garden wildlife Over the four seasons she intimately chronicles the drama & the joy the perils & the pleasures of the natural world as it all unfolds in her garden & on her daily walks in the limestone hills & valleys of Cumbria's South Lakeland What emerges is a celebration of landscapes that rarely feature in the existing canon of nature writing & rare insights into the lives of the species that may be common but are remarkable creatures all