num_pages: 192
description: NPR contributor and nature writer Mark Seth Lender chronicles the daily life of a salt marsh near his home Mark Seth Lenders home is on the edge of a salt marsh. From his front porch and back yard he is witness to an astonishing array of wildlife but nothing he sees is more beautiful and inspiring than the birds that fill the air perch on trees and wade in shallow water. His reports on the sighting of birds like great horned owls little blue herons and snowy egrets are featured in the segment Salt Marsh Diary heard on NPRs Living on Earth. For the first time he has chronicled the marshs life in a book penned from his perch. With the soul of a poet and the precision of a naturalist Lender transports the reader to the edge of his salt marsh and makes us both see and hear kingfishers terns bluebirds egrets and other wonders that fill the sky above us.
language: English
title: Salt Marsh Diary: A Year on the Connecticut Coast
publisher: St. Martin's Press