The National Trust has some beautiful books in their on line shop. I recently bought a lovely one celebrating British woods for a male family member’s birthday. The National Trust shop sale is still on, so might be worth a look. ??
I like the idea of a webcam watching birds. Sounds like something interesting.
kitty I am dyslexic so never correct others spelling as I am likely to make mistakes myself. I know it wasn’t your typing but I do think I would like to try some aloud spirits. I would like my ? to serenade me as I drink it.
For my husband's 60th I did a This is Your Life type binder, a newsletter for every decade indicating what was going on at that time politically and personally. I also bought (online) whatever single was No1 in the charts of the week of his birthday for each decade.
Some personal pics and things.
He loved it. It did take a lot of time to put together.
A beautiful Robert Macfarlane book? www.thelostwords.org/ or National Trust: I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year.
if he has a garden and some technical ability, what about a bird box with the WebCam installed? This way he could watch the whole process from creating the nest to the fledgelings leaving the nest.
Has he got a decent pair of binoculars? dh had some not very good ones so I bought him some Nikon 7 x 50 (?) for Christmas. We have spent many happy hours being able to correctly identify the birds in our garden and see properly what they are up to.