Mango-colored bird -- A zen monk at work -- The rasa of bulbuls -- A flicker of light -- The fruit orchard -- Le petit nuthatch -- Interlude: Western tanager -- The bobcat in my rosebed -- The mystery dimension -- Messengers from the past -- Damsels floating in air -- Crepuscular activities -- Prairie dog town -- Pedernal mountain -- La jornada del muerto -- Lifting the veil -- Desert breeding grounds -- Mi casita -- The mountain lion of birds -- Clifftop

""Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself." So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar"--