A charming and informative book by an artist and licensed wild bird rehabilitator. Tales of saving wrens, white throated sparrows, swallows, phoebes, etc. are told with humor and a deft touch skirting the almost unavoidable saccharine nature of animal tales and informing while entertaining. Incubation and fledgling intervals, numbers of eggs, weights of birds, are interspersed with stories of bird watchers, scientists and vets. Superb drawings accompany the stories. Lots of specialized words—local spot, scouts, c0velet, similax.