The Blackbird, You're a Beast, and You've Been a Beast of a Blackbird

I'd like to go back in time, because there are some aspects of what you've related through your writings that i found intriguing. You're obviously somebody who has long cared very deeply about the natural world, about your environment. A you mention this fixation with, i think it's blackbirds, and er being a beast and trying to get into the mind of a blackbird - but never quite doing so. So maybe you can talk a little bit about that. Iis prettly worth saying what i think i was trying to do. But i have been tantalized ever since by the question, what did that creature know of the world? And as i have grown older, i have