“They look cute, little birds. Fledglings. Don’t be fooled. They have just as much personality as anyone you know, even if they hide it well.”
This is a field guide, with much poetic licence and misguided imagination, to some of the birds that have hatched high up in the branches of the Birch tree...
Illustrated by Margaret Woods Moore, with stories by L.J. Sedgwick. Birch Babies is a humourous and entertaining glimpse at the birds that share our parks and woodlands. An example:
KYLIE
When Kylie was born, she came out of her egg bum first. Hence the name.This crow has a lovely wiggle and does a great version of the bees eight-loop dance.Sadly, she isn’t living up to the promise of her name as she really can’t sing very well.Her voice is great for scaring away spiders and flies though, so Juke likes to stay close to her at night.

Margaret and Lindsay are members of an art collective based in Dublin. The book came about when Lindsay asked Margaret if any of her birds had names. She came up with some mad little biographies for them and they found that everyone they showed them to got as much pleasure and fun from them as Margaret and Lindsay did. Lindsay is a children’s novelist and screenwriter.Margaret is an artist with a love of depicting animals, birds and people, she’s never far from a sketchpad, recording life in her quick gestural sketch style. Her work runs from traditional representational work to experimental mixed media work including textiles and printmaking. Both Lindsay and Margaret live in Ireland