Notes of An East Coast Naturalist: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Notes of An East Coast Naturalist, credited to Arthur Henry Patterson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Notes of An East Coast Naturalist by Arthur Henry Patterson. Read in English by TND Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist with an immeasurable knowledge and perspicacity of the Broadland region’s flora and fauna – especially the area around Great Yarmouth and Breydon Water. He was the author of many books about Broadland and was a regular and popular contributor (under the pen name of John Knowlittle) to the local county newspaper. From an early age, he developed an affinity with the natural history of the Broads and kept extensive daily notes on the area’s wildlife – which ultimately led him to collate and distil the observations that he had recorded over 25 years into this book. The Norfolk Broads are the largest protected wetland in Britain and abound with a diverse range of wildlife some of which are exclusive to this area and nearly all get a mention to some degree in this book. Interested in nature? Then please join Mr Patterson and me if you will, as we reveal the stories of the wildlife that frequented or visited this little known, yet unique area of the world over the timespan of a quarter of a century. (Summary by TND)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Notes of An East Coast Naturalist
• Author credits: Arthur Henry Patterson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 8:48:08

Catalogue topics

• nature
• birds
• ornithology
• Suffolk
• naturalist
• Natural History
• norfolk
• wildlife

Track guide

1. 00 - Prefatory Note — 4:01
2. 01 - Bird Notes Part 1 - From: Swallows' Nesting Sites — 30:28
3. 02 - Bird Notes Part 2 - From: Woodcock Mishaps — 34:50
4. 03 - Bird Notes Part 3 - From: Night in the Reeds — 32:00
5. 04 - Bird Notes Part 4 - From: The Common Scoter — 30:04
6. 05 - Bird Notes Part 5 - From: The Cormorant — 31:34
7. 06 - Bird Notes Part 6 - From: Watching Wild Ducks — 34:29
8. 07 - Bird Notes Part 7 - From: Flights of Wood-Pigeons — 34:25
9. 08 - Bird Notes Part 8 - From: The Land Dotterel — 34:03
10. 09 - Bird Notes Part 9 - From: The Curlew — 39:30
11. 10 - Bird Notes Part 10 - From: A Corvine Immigration — 39:31
12. 11 - Fish Notes Part 1 - From: Grey Mullet — 33:57
13. 12 - Fish Notes Part 2 - From: Deformed Codfishes — 37:12
14. 13 - Fish Notes Part 3 - From: Some Eel Notes — 37:26
15. 14 - Miscellaneous Notes Part 1 - From: On Dogs — 43:33
16. 15 - Miscellaneous Notes Part 2 - From: Toad Notes — 31:05

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