Any reader of Connie Sidles’ first book, (“In My Nature: A Birder’s Year at the Montlake Fill”–2009) will be delighted to learn she has written and published a second collection of her observations, insights, and quiet life lessons gleaned from her continuing visits to the landfill known officially as the Union Bay Natural Area (UBNA). The style of Second Nature is much like the first, but there are more great close-up photographs of birds, including rarities like a Lazuli Bunting or a Western Scrub-Jay.
Excerpted from the Fall 2012 Arboretum Bulletin.