From spring to autumn at Orchard Farm, the naturalist Dr. Roy Hunter teaches his daughter Olive, his nephew and niece Nat and Dodo, and the country boy Rap to recognise and protect the birds around them, from swallows on the telegraph wires to crossbills in the pines. Written with the ornithologist Elliott Coues and illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
An early bird-conservation book for young readers; its Black nurse, Mammy Bun, reflects the stereotypes of 1897. Download the free EPUB.