Welcome to Litsy!

South is a police officer with a past and passionate birdwatcher who lives alone in a small English coastal town.In his first murder investigation the victim is his friend and neighbor and the man suspected of the crime connected to South‘s mysterious past.I loved the story and writing until the finale which is eye rollingly ludicrous.Still I give it a pick because I really enjoyed it until I got to the last 50ish pages.

September wrap up, pretty decent month!

I thought this was great. O‘Kane is calm cool and collected, even when fighting for birds threatened in her community. She considers herself and “accidental ornithologist” and I may be headed that way myself. Just last night we heard a sound out our window which my Merlin app quickly identified as an Eastern Screech owl! It was the best part of my day. This book is much more focused on her personal life than the title would suggest.

#HaikuADay #HaikuHive

Today‘s haiku is inspired by the spotted dove cooing & singing this morning. (I borrowed this picture). Not native to Hawaii, the spotted dove was introduced from Asia in the 1800s.

Morning Sounds

The spotted dove coos
A soft plaintive melody
Outside my window

My last leisurely Monday morning of the summer. I will be at work next Monday. ☹️ #coffeeandbooks #hummingbirds

#FridayHappyReadingHour
We need a better hummingbird book- I have seen 3 varieties at our feeder, but only 1 is identified in the tagged book. Suggestions?
Enjoying Tost Sparkling Wine, thanks to @Amiable while happily reading.

My mom bought this for my oldest, so I read it before he took it. He‘s going back to RI soon for his senior year. He‘s studying Wildlife Biology & Conservation. He‘s become obsessed with birds. He‘s getting his applications ready for grad school. He wants to focus on birds (ducks or songbirds, still deciding, now that he‘s been reading about the research being done at different universities he‘s having a harder time narrowing it down). I learned

#haikuhive #haikuaday

Mourning dove update:

This is a still from our makeshift nestcam. The one on the gate is one of the babies, who flew down to perch and was joined by a parent briefly before parent flew to the nest. Then the other baby flew down to the gate but kept landing on its sibling, so they both flew up to the parent in the nest for second breakfast.

Quite exciting times at our gate! I think this means they're more teens than babies, though.

I only had 3 5 star reads in June, and I may still add the others in Wild Card spots. This tagged book was the most fun read and helped me get out of a reading slump. It is a delight!