Dee-licious, Dee-lightful!
"A Year on the Wing: Four Seasons in a Life With Birds" by Tim Dee
I'll cut to the chase: this is the most beautiful piece of nature-writing I have ever read. Period. There are other contenders, other great reads, but this taut, marvelous volume blew me away like no other.
I'd already been browsing this offering in a local bookstore for a couple of weeks