As I read Th Home Place I felt honored to hear the story of another black birder. Statements like “Nature was oftn the fist and last thing on my mind, morning to night” and “I felt closer to flght by bringing the birds closer to my earthbound existence” could have been peeled directly out of my mind. But on another level, the statement “Responses in forest and fild are not born of any preconceived notions of what ‘should be.’ Thy lie only in the fact that I am.” went straight to my heart.