I open my eyes and he’s right in front of me, in a low willow thicket that was half-flattened by the winter ice floes. Sitting in the Pennsylvania sun…a redstart sings. But from the first paragraph, I was drawn into a world I’d never really seen, although it was all around me. I decided I would skim a few chapters so I could ask a few reasonably informed questions. I liked birds and all, but four hundred pages of them? Although impressed by the Pulitzer nod, I was skeptical about the topic. They gave me a copy of his book, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds (North Point Press, 1999), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. Twenty years ago, when I worked at a small newspaper in northwest Pennsylvania, the local Audubon chapter asked if I would interview naturalist Scott Weidensaul to publicize his upcoming lecture.
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