During the 1960s, the osprey all but vanished because of the ravages of DDT, but now these breathtaking birds are returning. For six luminous months, David Gessner immersed himself in the lives of the ospreys that had returned to his corner of Cape Cod. Writing with passion, humor, and a reverence for the natural world, Gessner interweaves the stories of the nesting osprey pairs he observed with the narrative of his own readjustment to life on a windblown, beautiful, and increasingly developed landscape he had known as a child.