Private Lives of Garden Birds [B2148]

1984 HCDJ, original edition in nice clean condition (escept for some wear to the DJ). Excerpt from the Jacket flap: In Private Lives of Garden Birds, you will learn about the lifeways of mockingbirds, swallows, blue jays, chickadees, song sparrows, robins, English sparrows, phoebes, red-winged blackbirds, and crows. At least half the birds in this book are probably regular visitors to your garden and backyard, and the other half are close cousins to regular visitors. When you finish reading this entertaining and absorbing book, you will be thoroughly familiar with what it's like to be a bird of one of these species. Taking a stroll in your backyard will be like walking onto the stage of a complex and fascinating melodrama. You will never again look at the birds around your yard and garden in quite the same way. The underlying message of the book is one of respect for nature. The more we know about the birds in our gardens, the more we will empathize with them and with all our fellow creatures. It is the author's hope that greater understanding will lead us to approach nature with even more caution, with even more appreciation, and with even more feeling than we have in the past.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I enjoyed this sweet read. It made me want to have a large, bird friendly garden in the future and pay closer attention to my bird neighbors on my walks until then. Simonds writes about birds because he loves them, not because he's a scientist. And that's a refreshing and relatable point of view to me."; "A gardener with an education tells us about his experiences on his farm with common birds. Well thought out, well said, and a good selection of common birds and their habits and mannerisms."; "Reminds me of Bernd Heinrich's writing style- lots of facts and scientific info, liberally sprinkled with day-to-day personal observations and discoveries. Makes me want to start my own birding journal back up again."