After a journey lasting fifteen years amassing observations day after day and a further year extrapolating and compiling the data into a coherent whole VOICES TO THE CLOUDS is a worthy result of these endeavours. As a work of reference the book should prove invaluable to devotees of birds, butterflies and climate and, indeed for those of an inquiring disposition into all the natural world has to offer. The book contains birds by month, frost and heat sequences, first butterfly sightings, climate tables and more, with an engaging narrative ably supported by contextual notes from revered naturalists of the past, together with a comprehensive index. Perhaps VOICES TO THE CLOUDS best strength lies in the presentation of a wealth of data gathered from a fifteen year compass, nevertheless the book remains accessible to all, for scientific study to every interested person that has an affinity with English nature.