The Birding Tree

A story about loneliness, forgiveness, and the courage to let others into our lives.

Eighteen species of wild birds live in ten-year old Libby’s front yard, and for a future ornithologist like her, it’s a dream. She’d trade human friends for avian ones any day, and her thirty-two birdhouses, eleven bird feeders, stacks of field notes, and lack of friendship bracelets prove it.