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Out of the woods : a bird watcher's year / Ora E. Anderson ; edited by Deborah Griffith ; illustrations by Julie Zickefoose ; foreword by Jean Andrews.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Ora E., 1911-2006.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anderson, Ora E., 1911-2006.
- Anderson, Ora E.
- Bird watching--Ohio--Anecdotes.
- Bird watching.
- Birds--Ohio--Anecdotes.
- Birds.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Out of the Woods: A Bird Watcher's Year is a journey through the seasons and a joyous celebration of growing old. In fifty-nine essays and poems, Ora E. Anderson, birder, bird carver, naturalist, and nature writer, reveals the insights and recollections of a keen-eyed observer of nature, both human and avian. The essays follow the rivers and creeks, the highways and little-known byways of Appalachia, and along the way we become nearly as familiar with its numerous bird, plant, and animal species as with the author himself. These are not the memories of a single year, however, but of a long lifetime spent immersed in the natural world. Out of the Woods, presented with humor and passion, is an account of a well-lived, productive, and satisfying life. The essays offer an intimate portrait of a half century of life on Anderson's beloved old farm (more nearly a nature preserve), where he lived in harmony with birds and nature and followed the rhythm of the seasons. We are invited to share the joys--and the disappointments and sorrows--inherent in such a life. Generously illustrated with Julie Zickefoose's detailed drawings and evocative sketches, this book will delight bird watchers, artists, naturalists, backyard gardeners, and anyone who is sometimes tempted to take a rutted, overgrown, and unused path just to see where it leads.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Spring
- Wind Borne
- Restless March
- Spring Washes Its Face
- What Bird Is That?
- Birding Memories, Past and Future
- Early Mist
- Devious Ducks
- Wading in Beaver Ponds
- Mid-April Morning
- Old, Old April
- A Day in Early May
- The Virtuoso Brown Thrasher
- Early June Troubles
- Quicksilver
- Summer
- Fairy Dust
- Birds Along the Hocking
- The Chat
- Gentle Hours
- Evensong
- Looking Back
- Rubythroat
- The Geese Fly Now
- Waning July
- The Sound of Longing
- Lost-By Choice
- Night Shadows
- The Passing of August
- September Lament
- Thirteen Jays!
- Fall
- Letters Home
- Lonesomeness
- Giving Thanks
- Eighty-fourth Birthday
- The Lingerer
- October Omens
- The Daytime Trip of the Nighthawks
- An October Walk
- Reverie
- At Last, the Rains
- Autumn Stage Settings
- Invocation
- White-Throated Sparrow
- November's End
- Autumn's Encore
- Winter
- December Snow
- My Backyard Adventures
- Ring In the New
- The "Old" Year
- Hill Country Streams
- Visitors in the Snow
- Bird-Watching Surprises
- Settling In
- Winter's Serenade
- The Long Cold
- Do-Nothing Day
- This Land and I
- Suddenly It's Spring!
- To an Old Farm
- Illustrations.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-8214-4244-9
- OCLC:
- 614482272
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