"From My Garden — Of Birds (Both Kinds)"

An essay that later appeared as part of chapter 20 in A Fountain of Flowers.

Bates suggests that birds, like women, are to be loved but not understood.

In Living (London, November 1970, p. 9, attached).

Reprinted in slightly longer form with the title 'Birds in Gardens' in The Garden Lover’s Companion (edited by Peter Hunt, Eyre Methuen, London, 1974, pp. 326-328, attached)