Parrots' Wood

About this book

Erma Fisk known to her friends as Jonnie was a contented housewife until the sudden death of her husband. Mostly by accident (she claims) she became an amateur ornithologist and naturalist winning awards as her horizons expanded to include research and birdbanding duties from Maine to Peru. Parrots Wood is a journal of a month in Belize spent on tropical research. while recounting her day-to-day experiences she reminiscences on earlier times in her life unexpected friendships and events that have brought her to a crossroads of age -- in years -- she is not willing to accept. With honesty that can bring tears as well as laughter Fisk writes of her life as a series of doors to be opened and some to be shut. Irritated but undaunted by her nearly eighty years she continues to say "yes" to lifes challenges and encourages us to do so too.