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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

day, I had come home to a scraggy, skittish stray of my own. I didn’t yet know what this cat’s story might be, if she had a home, if she was lost. The process of taking in a stray isn’t usually instantaneous and straightforward. With respect to the stray cat Puck, we eventually learned her name was Jackie.

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The Hummingbird that Answered My Heart’s Calling by Noelle M. Meade-Izzi

10,000 Birds

Meade-Izzi’s discoveries — that hummingbirds are tiny, and cute, and part of a remarkable food web that demonstrates the interconnectedness of all living things, that they can inspire a human to follow her instincts and work on contentment in her own life — are those of a nature novice, albeit a wildly enthusiastic one.

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