Bibliograph

Saving Jemima, life and love with a hard-luck jay, Julie Zickefoose

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Saving Jemima, life and love with a hard-luck jay, Julie Zickefoose

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 237) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Saving Jemima

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1080246821

Responsibility statement

Julie Zickefoose

Sub title

life and love with a hard-luck jay

Summary

When Jemima, a young orphaned blue jay, is brought to wildlife rehabilitator Zickefoose, she is a virtually tailless, palm-sized bundle of gray-blue fluff. Though starved and very sick, she is nursed back to health and raised for eventual release. In the meantime, Jemima takes over the house and the rest of the author's summer. Shortly after release Jemima turns up with a deadly disease, but medicating a free-flying wild bird is a challenge. Zickefoose shows how Jemima became a creative muse and source of strength through her own heartbreaking changes. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

The egg -- Facebook waif -- Fledging and feeding -- Stuart -- Life with Jemima -- Release -- Titmouse wars -- Vigilance and intelligence -- Calamity strikes -- Cementing the bond -- As seen on TV -- Peg and me -- Living on the fault line -- Catastrophic molt -- Who's saving whom? -- The urge for going -- Jemima in winter -- Other blue celebrities -- Lessons from a jay -- Step into my parlor

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