{"product_id":"neighborhood-hawks-a-year-following-wild-birds-paperback","title":"Neighborhood Hawks: A Year Following Wild Birds - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Lane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHelen Correll\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter reading J. A. Baker's fifty-year-old British nature classic \u003ci\u003eThe Peregrine\u003c\/i\u003e, John Lane found himself an ocean away, stalking resident red-shouldered hawks in his neighborhood in Spartanburg, South Carolina. What he observed was very different from what Baker deduced from a decade of chronicling the lives of those brooding migratory raptors. Baker imagined a species on the brink of extinction because of the use of agricultural chemicals on European farms. A half century later in America, Lane found the red-shouldered hawks to be a stable Anthropocene species adapted to life along the waterways of a suburban nation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLane watched the hawks for a full year and along the way made a pledge to himself: Anytime he heard or saw the noisy, nonmigratory hawks in his neighborhood, he would drop whatever he was doing and follow them on foot, on bike, or in his truck. The almanac that results from this discipline considers many questions any practiced amateur naturalist would ask, such as where and when will the hawks nest, what do they eat, what are their greatest threats, and what exactly are they communicating through those constant multinoted cries? Lane's year following the hawks also led him to try to answer what would become the most complex question of all: why his heart, like Baker's, goes out so fully to wild things.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOHN LANE is a professor of English and environmental studies at Wofford College. His books include \u003ci\u003eCircling Home, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMy Paddle to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCoyote Settles the South\u003c\/i\u003e (all Georgia). He also coedited, with Gerald Thurmond, \u003ci\u003eThe Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South\u003c\/i\u003e (also Georgia). He has published several volumes of poetry, essays, and a novel, as well as a selection of his online columns, \u003ci\u003eThe Best of the Kudzu Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eAnthropocene Blues: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is his most recent work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45612717768748,"sku":"9780820354934","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/neighborhood-hawks-a-year-following-wild-birds-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}