Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington – review

The author’s mission to track down all 13 species of owl in Europe seems less a labour of love than a book-writing exerciseOne darkish evening not so long ago, the nature writer Miriam Darlington stood in a wood somewhere in Devon, her feet buried in wild garlic, her nose filled with the scents of mulch and moss. Through the treetops, she could see the rising moon and a flitting bat, sights that were soundtracked by birdsong (thrushes, blackbirds, rasping rooks) and her own small contribut