Osprey Island

Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Praise

OSPREY ISLAND, SUMMER 1988

Prologue - THE ONES THEY CAME BACK FOR

One - THE LODGE AT OSPREY ISLAND

Two - WHERE THE OSPREY MAKES ITS NEST

Three - THE RAPTOR IS A BIRD OF PREY

Four - TO WHAT DIRECTION WILL YOUR CHICKS TAKE WING?

Five - HOW BLACK THE NIGHT THAT BLINDS OUR HUMAN HEARTS

Six - AS FODDER BLAZES STORED ABOVE THE BYRE

Seven - IN THE SHADOW OF THY WINGS WILL I MAKE MY REFUGE

Eight - THE MECHANICS OF FLIGHT

Nine - AN OSPREY BUILDS ITS NEST OF STICKS AND ALL THE RUBBISH IT CAN COLLECT

Ten - HOW THE OSPREY TENDS ITS NESTLINGS

Eleven - THE BLESSINGS OF HYPOTHERMIA

Twelve - ON THE INTERACTION OF SPECIES

Thirteen - THE NATURE OF THE STRUCTURE OF A LIE

Fourteen - THE BROODINESS OF HENS A Brief Lesson in Avian Reproduction

Fifteen - IF THE PRICE WERE TREACHERY

Sixteen - A LONG TIME HELPLESS IN THE NEST

Seventeen - AS THEY FLEE YOU’D THINK THEY FLOAT ON WINGS

Eighteen - WWCD?

Nineteen - THE SHORE RECEDES, AND I TOO ON THE SHORE

Twenty - GRIEF-SPURRED, SWIFT-SWOOPING

Twenty-one - THAT FLESH OF HIS OWN FLESH

Twenty-two - NIGHT IS THE SUREST NURSE OF TROUBLED SOULS

Epilogue - AN EYRIE OF OSPREY

Acknowledgments

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