Private lives of garden birds

Mockingbirds: virtuoso singers

Swallows: graceful colonists of our buildings

Blue Jays: the family reunion at your feeder

Chickadees: faithful friends in the garden

Song Sparrows: each region its own Sparrow language

Robins: tuneful aggression

House Sparrows: cheeky foreigners on the make

Phoebes: gentle tyrants

Red-winged Blackbirds: pushy polygamists

Crows: complex societies of the bird world

Hummingbirds: pennyweight birds with a pound of attitude

A lifetime of observing birds.