Small-headed Flycatcher. Seen Yesterday. He Didn't Leave His Name.

A lifelong resident of New Jersey, Pete Dunne is Director of the New Jersey Audubon Society's Cape May Bird Observatory in Cape May Point, New Jersey, and consultant to the Peterson birding field guide series.

• Acknowledgments Preface Part 1: Stories About Family Gift of Seed Brother Mike's Retreat from Birding The Wisdom of Sisters Kaleidoscope Eyes The Birdin' of Kindness Judgment Day Part 2: Stories About Friends The Soldier R. Harold Colville Diary The Last Big Day Part 3: Stories About Birds... In Praise of Jays Small-Headed Flycatcher. Seen Yesterday. He Didn't Leave His Name. Deep Pockets Embers of Spring Part 4: ...And Birding Getting a Leg Up on Bird-Sighting Sheets Confessions of a Listing Heretic Formula for a White-Winged Tern The Price of Respectability Eternal Errors Passing Sights and Sounds Made in Heaven For Melinda with Love and Squalor The Old Man and the Plover Separating Hoagies Nosing Out an Identification. Taking It with Salt. Part 5: Reflections The Fox and the Harrier Vespers for a Fallout After the Cold Front Bonded to the West Wind My Perfect Universe Spring of Wonder, Autumn of Mastery River Dipping

Mr. Dunne . . . is one of the country's most-respected birders, a self-taught authority whose exuberant, almost-poetic approach to the pastime has won him many followers among the growing legions of birders. (Wall Street Journal)