How to Talk to Birds and Other Uncommon Ways of Enjoying Nature the Year Round

by Richard C. Davids

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 tell 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 j- and other ways of introducing them to nature, and much, much more! Season by season, Richard Davids shows us uncommon ways of enjoying our common woods, fields, marshes, 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! Illustrated with photos.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1972