Have a question about kids or chickens (or both?) or want to let me know something about chickens? drop me a line I'll get back to you as soon as I can. And we, the human members of her flock couldn’t be more pleased. She’s a bird with a large heart who is sweet and charming. This is our little Sy-Montgomery all grown up. Sy said she would love to see a current photo of her chicken, so here you go. I told her how her chicken, a Golden Comet bred to be an egg layer had matured and was now a veritable lady of the flock who was doing fine and was providing us with lots of lovely brown eggs. Sy, also the author of The Good, Good Pig has a fabulous sense of humor and mischief that came shining through even in her Good Egg interview.Īfter my chicken talk, I contacted Sy to let her know what the woman had said about her book. She loved the idea of having a chicken named after her and completed my interview post haste. Sy writes about her experiences with animals and that makes her a woman after my own heart, sisters separated by time and mothers. Last summer when I was naming our chicks in response to author interviews, I contacted Sy who is a fellow granite stater. I’ve known of the author for some time and we even have a chicken named after her. Birdology is a fascinating book about “adventures with a pack of hens, a peck of pigeons, cantankerous crows, fierce falcons, hip hop parrots, baby hummingbirds, and one murderously big living dinosaur”. I just love this book,” she gushed as she held it out to me – an offering of similar interest in birds. “I brought this book tonight because I thought you might want to know about it”, she told me. She held the book in her arms as one does a child, something of great treasure.

Recently after I gave a workshop on chickens a woman approached me holding a copy of Sy Montgomery’s B irdology.

Birdology by Sy Montgomery