How to Talk to Birds

A wise, funny and moving book, so interestingly told you don't realize you're getting a short course in nature. Here's a chance to tramp the woods and marshes with someone who knows every plant and tree and bird and animal...and who talks to them, too. Just about the best nature book I've ever seen." -Senator Walter F. Mondale For those of us who know that nature is There, but don't quite know what to do about it, here is a book that charms, delights, and invites by telling us: -how to learn to love a swamp -how to attract many varieties of birds to your doorstep (and how to recognize them once they've arrived) -how to raise moths in your own bedroom (for enlightenment and pleasure, not for sweaters and overcoats) -how to keep an indoor garden prospering even in January -how best to provision a feeder -how to get a deer, every time (by watching, not shooting!) -how to make sense of field guides -how to offer children a close-up view of the home life of birds-and other ways of introducing them to nature -and more... Season by season, Richard Davids shows us uncommon ways of enjoying our common woods, fields, marses, forests-even our own backyards. Pondering the mysteries of nature, summoning up its immediate and its remembered beauties, he opens our eyes to its infinite fascinations. With his help even the most house- and office-bound reader will gain a new intimacy with the natural world, even to the point of learning-really-How to Talk to Birds.