Excerpt from the book:

"Many bird watchers think summer is the optimum time to find birds. True enough, there are more birds around. More species, more numbers of most species. True, but many birds are on the nest, quiet, and don't want to be seen, or are busy feeding and training their young and are no longer singing. Some are hiding out as only they can.

Summer birds are great. But winter birds, they're hardy souls with fewer obligations. Every wild creature has to be concerned about its safety and food. Winter birds have pretty much only those concerns - not territorial defenses, not mate selection, not eggs to brood, not young to care for.

Why, winter birds are almost on vacation!

What better time to look for them?"

109pp.