5 Quotes by Julie Zickefoose

You could do worse than to spend your days staring at blue jays.

The more I work with birds, the more I believe in the undreamt, the things we are not given to know.

The presence of a single bird can change everything for one who appreciates them.

One of our favorite spring rituals is to buy packs of white goose feathers at a craft store, climb our bird-watching tower, and stand, feathers in our outstretched fingers, until tree swallows gather the courage to hover close, snatch them, and bear them off to their nest.

For the record, even a turkey vulture won’t eat a processed chicken nugget. I stopped buying them for my son when I saw the vultures picking around them.