Bulbul Sharma has spent a lifetime exploring the gardens, parks and forest \nareas in and around Delhi. This delightful book is the result of her wanderings. \nFrom Grey Hornbills and Rose-ringed Parakeets in Lodi Gardens to the \nhandsome resident Indian Eagle-owl at Tughlakabad Fort, she recounts her \nobservations of all manner of birds and animals with the zeal of a true nature \nlover. She describes how the different seasons bring about changes to Delhi’s \nflora and fauna. During fog-shrouded winter days, she makes her way to \nSultanpur Lake to watch the migratory birds; in Delhi’s brief spring, when \nevery roundabout and garden is a riot of colour, she watches the birds busily \nbuilding their nests. In the cruel summer months when everyone escapes \nindoors to escape the heat, the calls of the Coppersmith and the Green Barbet \nresound from every leafy tree. And then the monsoon arrives heralded by the \nPied-crested Cuckoo which never fails to predict the rain. \nSharma observes how the enforced solitude of the lockdowns in Covid days \nturned many of us into nature lovers, who suddenly discovered the pleasures \nof watching the birds on the trees. Now that things are back to normal, she \nhopes that these newborn nature lovers will continue to savour one of life’s \nsimplest joys—birdwatching