Birdology, by Sy Montgomery

I think, books can be many things. They can be a wonderful escape into a different world, they can be deadly boring text you must attempt to focus upon, they can be a record, painful, frightening, sweet. But, my favorite books are ones that make me think. I mean really think. And muse and wonder and excite. Sy Montgomery has managed to really hook me with Birdology. If you have spent much time with me in the past week, I have probably brought
up birds; language, homing instincts, yarak, dinosaurs- I have read each section, then thought about it for days. One of my blogs( A Velociraptor of my own) on the other blog I keep, Cowfeathersfarm, was a result of some of these meditations.I wouldn't doubt there are more in the works. Because when a moment of brainstillness comes, there are birds now. I have watched Snowball- a yellow crested Cockatoo, dance on youtube. His dance to "Another one bites the dust" is magnificent. I have thought about my friend, Tim, in Oklahoma that is a falconer, and I wish I had pumped him for more information when we lived in OK. I have always been fascinated by the huge murders of Crows, or Starlings, or Red-Winged Blackbirds as they turn the sky and ground black and loud, turning in a uniform cloud. But now I'm thinking more about that, not just accepting, but marvelling. Birdology is making me see the world differently. That is a book worth reading.

P.S. I should mention that the author uses the phrase "bird s___" a few times in the book. Also, during the last pages there is some politically active beliefs. Right or wrong, they are there. Climate change, factory farming, meat eating...the scourges of humanity. I think it stole a bit from the magic of the book, but don't let it discourage you!