Hi Tweets,
Continuing the bird recommendation thread... A book that my wife and I both thoroughly enjoyed was "The Sun is a Compass" by Caroline van Hemert. Van Hemert is an ornithologist and creative writer; the book is about an epic human-powered trip she and her husband take from Bellingham to the Canadian Arctic Ocean and then across the Brooks Range to Kotzebue. Most adventure books are fun to read for the adventure and not so much for the writing. Van Hemert is a beautiful writer, and birds make regular appearances throughout their adventure.
https://www.carolinevanhemert.com/book

And if you haven't already read it, "The Forest Unseen" by David Haskell is a beautifully written and really interesting set of meditations on forest ecology and evolution told through observations of a 1 meter circle of Tennessee forest. There are some birds in it too.

And I'll leave you with what for me was a novel observation - my wife and I were watching two dippers over the weekend. One of them caught a small fish (sculpin we think) and proceeded to beat it senseless on rocks before eating it. I'd always thought of dippers as eating only aquatic macroINvertebrates, not vertebrates.

Take care everyone,
Peter