{"product_id":"natures-calendar-9781421427430","title":"Natures Calendar","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTake an enchanting journey through the shifting seasons in a wildlife sanctuary home to wetland, forest, and grassland and supporting an incredible diversity of plants and animals.   Flocks of waterfowl exploding into steely skies above frozen marshland, salamanders creeping across the forest floor to vernal pools, chorusing frogs peeping their ecstasy while warblers crowd budding trees, turtles sunning on floating logs, the ecological engineering of beaversthese are but a few of the sights and sounds marking a year at Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary and its neighboring landscapes in Southern Maryland. In an absorbing account of a year in the life of this sanctuary, naturalist Colin Rees invites us to join him as he explores the secrets and wonders of the changing natural world. Alongside the author, we witness spring's avian migrations, quickening of aquatic vegetation, burgeoning of myriad invertebrates, and the assaults of extreme weather conditions. We revel in summertime's proliferatio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirds led Colin Rees — a former environmental advisor for the World Bank — to Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary. There he discovered a wider love, of the natural world, so strong it led to his latest book, \u003ci\u003eNature's Calendar: A Year in the Life of a Wildlife Sanctuary \u003c\/i\u003e. . . In Jug Bay, Rees documented an ecological year from a variety of viewpoints. His weekly visits to the park coincided with citizen science projects, sampling and surveys with volunteers or researchers. During active times in the sanctuary, he visited as often as three times a week to make his observations, which take the form of a diary of sorts, much in the style of \u003ci\u003eSand County Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e—Kathy Knotts, \u003ci\u003eBay Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in exquisite prose, \u003ci\u003eNature's Calendar: A Year in the Life of a Willife Sanctuary\u003c\/i\u003e is a year-long ramble through southern Arundal County's Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary. Colin Rees entwines the delight of an explorer, the awareness of a lifelong naturalist, the scope of an historian, and the insight of a professional conservationist . . . Any nature enthusiast will appreciate the care and breadth of this book—its celebration of Jug Bay's exceptional wildlife, the esteem of its custodians and students, and an unflinching look at threats to its integrity, including climate change, invasive species, and human activity. \u003ci\u003eNature's Calendar\u003c\/i\u003e will surprise, educate, and inspire. It's a book to be savored, studied and re-read.\u003cbr\u003e—Barbara Johnson, \u003ci\u003eOutlook by the Bay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRees captures, in painterly prose, an entire year of nature in all of its changing beauty, fragility, brutality, and complexity . . . Filled as it is with a lifetime of knowledge and skilled observation, we can still hear in Rees's writing the infectious wonder of a young boy in Wales who fell in love with birds and went on to devote his life to the natural world. Readers should need no further convincing to go vicariously with him on this meditative yearlong excursion.\u003cbr\u003e—Lucie Lehmann, \u003ci\u003eWilson Journal of Ornithology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword, by Rick Anthony\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003eThe Setting\u003cbr\u003eThe Seasons by Month \u003cbr\u003eJanuary: The Big Cold Moon\u003cbr\u003eFebruary: The Snow or Hunger Moon \u003cbr\u003eMarch: The Wakening or Crow Moon \u003cbr\u003eApril: The Grass Moon \u003cbr\u003eMay: The Planting Moon \u003cbr\u003eJune: The Rose Moon \u003cbr\u003eJuly: The Thunder Moon \u003cbr\u003eAugust: The Corn Moon \u003cbr\u003eSeptember: The Hunting Moon \u003cbr\u003eOctober: The Leaf-Falling Moon \u003cbr\u003eNovember: The Mad Moon \u003cbr\u003eDecember: The Long Night's Moon \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A. Animals Mentioned in the Text \u003cbr\u003eAppendix B. Plants Mentioned in the Text \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408128123223,"sku":"9781421427430","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421427430.jpg?v=1730501687","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/natures-calendar-9781421427430","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}