Jack Gedney is also the author of The Private Lives of Public Birds: Learning to Listen to the Birds Where We Live and a compact field guide to the trees of the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2018, he has written a column on local birds, "On the Wing," for the Marin Independent Journal. Jack currently co-owns a wild bird feeding and nature shop in Novato, California.

Angelina Gedney is an artist based in Davis, CA.

The Heart of the Oak Woodland

• The Soul of the Oaks: Oak Titmouse
• The Prober of the Furrows: White-breasted Nuthatch
• The Kinglet and the Greenlet: Ruby-crowned Kinglet and Hutton’s Vireo
• The Relatability of the Absurd: Acorn Woodpecker

The Birds Beneath the Oaks

• Discontented Shadows: Spotted Towhee
• The Gentleness That Binds: California Quail
• A Bird at Our Level: Bewick’s Wren
• The Little Tailor: Bushtit

Visitors from the Pines and Firs

• A Fire Rises: Northern Flicker
• The Antidote of Fear: Chestnut-backed Chickadee
• The Winter Thrushes: Hermit and Varied Thrush
• A Light in Winter: Townsend’s Warbler

Between Oak and Sky

• Grayness Overcome: Western Bluebird
• The Living Wind: Band-tailed Pigeon
• The Falcon of the Oaks: American Kestrel
• The Sky Elf: Violet-green Swallow

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