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When a lone magpie crossed your grandmother's path, she saluted it to turn away the sorrow. This book teaches you to read a welcome where she read a warning.
The robin at the window was a loved one still near; the swallow over the field, summer promised in a wingbeat. Long before the Victorians pinned meanings to flowers, people read the birds overhead as a language, and this is the book that teaches you to understand it.
The Language of Birds gathers the meanings, myths, and folklore of forty-seven birds into a keepsake A to Z, from the albatross that carries a drowned sailor's soul to the wren crowned king of the birds. And unlike most books of omens, it gives every dark bird back its kinder, older meaning, the magpie's joy as well as its sorrow.
Then it shows you how to use the language: to choose a bird for a birth, a wedding, or a farewell, and welcome the singers back to your garden through the year.
Part folklore, part field guide, part the quiet craft of listening, it is a book for anyone who loves birds, gardens, and the old ways.
Discover what the birds have been saying all along. Open the window, and listen.
