Page 6 - Martin Downs Bulletin - November '24

Page 6, Martin Downs

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What The Chicken Knows: lists in 25 countries around our lives once again in
the world – most describing
making us aware of what
A New Appreciation Of The her exciting adventures unrealized wonder and
World’s Most Familiar Bird with some of nature’s most beauty surrounds us, all too
often under-appreciated.
fearsome creatures.
It is with good reason For those not yet familiar
By Nils A. Shapiro that the Boston Globe has with Montgomery’s
All you need to know is that the author is Sy described award-winning background, I should
Montgomery. author Sy Montgomery point out that she and her
For millions of readers around the world, and I do mean as “a combination of author-historian husband,
millions, the name Sy Montgomery is associated with more Indiana Jones and Emily Howard Mansfield, live
than 35 books, many of which have climbed the bestseller Dickinson” for the beautiful in New Hampshire and for
way in which she has written about such experiences as decades have shared their
being chased by a silverback gorilla in Africa, hunted by home’s property from time
real estate man-eating tigers in India (National Geographic produced to time with an assortment of animals, from their border
a TV special about that), worked in a pit with 18,000
collie dog, Thurber, to a pig that they raised from a tiny
snakes in Manitoba, swam with piranhas and dolphins in runt to 500-plus pound Volkswagen-sized Christopher
the Amazon, studied octopuses in their Gulf of Mexico Hogwood who wandered the town on his own getting
Treasure Coast Real Estate habitat for her classic National Book Award finalist Soul handouts from the butcher, pet scratches from the kids and
Report of an Octopus, was undressed by a wild orangutan, learned became the subject of a bestselling book by Montgomery.
the art of falconry so she could hunt as a partner with one
But always among her favorites have been the small
of the world’s most feared predators … and too many more flock of egg-laying hens that she calls her “little ladies,”
Florida Homeowners Need To Consider to touch on here. who have their own chicken coop but are allowed free
Flood Insurance Seriously So, I was more than a little surprised when I learned that run of the backyard under the protection of several of the
Sy’s new book, published this month, is devoted to … chickens! latest team of roosters.
By Jim Weix My first thought was, what could there possibly be to learn And one could not want a better protector than a rooster,
Hurricanes Helene about these birds that all of us already know so well? as two episodes described by Montgomery make very
and Milton caught How wrong I was! And how fortunate we all are to have
thousands of homeowners so knowledgeable a guide as Sy Montgomery to enrich Book Review on page 7
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