Working as a birdwatching guide to scrape together enough money to survive, Nathan Lochmueller performs nature research in backwater Indiana, where he falls in love with a heartbreaking free spirit named Lola and confronts the accidental turns of his life.

For most of us, birdwatching begins in the backyard with the first crust of bread we, as children, offer the birds and our interest in birds grows from there. The All-Season Backyard Birdwatcher will provide everything you need to know - from identification and feeding techniques to housing and landscaping - to invite the birds you really want and keep them coming back to your yard. Incredibly detailed photographs of birds eating, nesting, and rearing...

"A practical, richly illustrated birding guide for the Oregon coast, highlighting important conservation information"--

"Eli Knapp takes readers from a leaky dugout canoe in Tanzania and the mating grounds of Ecuador's cock-of-the-rock to a juniper titmouse's perch at the Grand Canyon and the migration of hooded mergansers in a New York swamp, exploring life's deepest questions all along the way. In this collection of essays, Knapp intentionally flies away from the flock, reveling in insights gleaned from birds, his students, and the wide-eyed wonder his children's...