Lost Among The Birds

Product Description

Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job. He didn't want to think about his failed relationship with "the one". & he almost certainly didn't want to think about turning forty. & so instead he went birding. Birding was a lifelong passion. It was only among the birds that Neil found a calm that had eluded him in the confusing world of humans. But this time he also found competition. His growing list of species reluctantly catapulted him into a Big Year--a race to find the most birds in one year. Neil shocked the birding world by finding 749 species of bird & breaking the long-standing Big Year record. He also surprised himself: During his time among the hummingbirds, tanagers, & boobies, he found a renewed sense of confidence & hope about the world & his place in it.