我12岁生日那天,父亲送给我一本罗格·彼得森撰写的《北美洲东部鸟类观赏指南》。父亲酷爱观鸟。我年少时,他就经常向我讲起20世纪20年代他在巴尔的摩的童年故事,讲他如何热爱鸟儿,以至于徒步穿越森林去追寻每一种新发现的鸟儿,并为最终能偷偷靠近这些鸟儿观赏一番而 My 12th birthday, my father gave me a “guide to bird watching in North Eastern America,” written by Roger Peterson. Father love birdwatching. When I was young, he often told me about his childhood story in Baltimore in the 1920s, how he loved birds so he could walk through the woods to search for every newly discovered bird and eventually to steal Watch the birds close to them