Pete Dunne is director of natural history information for the New Jersey Audubon Society's Cape May Bird Observatory in Cape May Point, New Jersey. A widely published writer on birding, he is also author of The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year and Hawks in Flight.

In these tales about birds, birding, and birders, Dunne has captured many of the feelings that make birding special.... Almost any ornithologist or naturalist would enjoy this book. (Auk)

• Foreword by Roger Tory PetersonPrefacePreface to the Second EditionBilly Leeds and the EagleOverflightA Tale of Two HawkwatchersPulling StringsBookcase BluebillFirst-Year BirdThe Legend of Jesse MewBirdathon '83-A Saab StoryA Lifer for RogerSVATA Peregrine Going South for the First Time AgainScotch Bonnet BlindA Gift of VisionA Confederate Hawkwatcher from AK-625Shearwater SundayDeath of a SeasonSitkagi SpringMacadam EncounterThoughts While Waiting for an Ice Falcon