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Tells the author's story of life among birds. This work shows how he became a card-carrying birdwatcher, observing his first skylark - peerless king of the summer sky - while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed bid to educate his drinking mate Danny in the ways of birding.

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'I remember thinking when I was about 14, "I hope God doesn't find out I'm an atheist".'

This is Rory's story of being brought up a Catholic, going to Catholic school, being an altar boy;