9 JUNE 2007, Page 17

The wrong bird

Sir: According to Cressida Connolly, reviewing Rosie Boycott's Our Farm (Books, 26 May), Mistress Boycott is interested in everything, including why robins' eggs are blue.

There are only two possible answers to this question: neither lady can tell a robin from a hedgesparrow, or both are mentally on the far side of the Atlantic, where robins are thrushes.

PG. Urben Kenilworth, Warwickshire