Contents -- Translator's Note -- Foreword -- Part I -- 1 Where I Come From -- 2 A Mountain for Acturus -- 3 The Big Inventory -- 4 April, and the Annual Return of the Ospreys -- 5 June and July, Birthing Season -- 6 Fly, Thibon, Fly! -- 7 First Autumn Winds -- 8 Winterizing -- 9 A Christmas Present on the Way -- 10 The Bath Ritual -- 11 The Loner -- 12 The Otters -- 13 Moon Rising -- 14 Sirius -- 15 Christmas Night -- 16 Tourists at Lac Villiers! -- 17 Intelligence -- 18 Putting Up a Platform -- 19 "With sweetness, with sweetness,with sweetness…"-Paul Verlaine -- 20 Let's Go! -- 21 Danielle and Shema -- Part II -- 22 Running with the Dogs -- 23 The Dear Beavers -- 24 Observations in the Cold -- 25 Lupus, Lupus, Lupus -- 26 The Solitary Wolf -- 27 Kiakita, Yesterday and Tomorrow -- 28 The Last Wolves of Lac Villiers -- 29 Hard-to-Avoid Failures -- 30 The Big White Spruce and the Backhouse -- 31 Never Forget the Swallows -- 32 A Word from Danielle -- 33 Ornithology, Family-Style -- 34 File 1641-1022, 94-BA-01 -- 35 Hydro-Québec and the Chicks of lg1, lg2, and lg3 -- 36 The Release -- 37 The Common Loon -- 38 Superb Progenitor -- 39 A Race against Time -- 40 Your Turn, Magic Light -- Part III -- 41 Spring at Lac Villiers -- 42 The Children of Lac Villiers -- 43 The Trails at Lac Villiers -- 44 The Black Missile -- 45 Plenty of Ospreys -- 46 The Northern Pike -- 47 Reproduction of the Common Loon -- 48 Solstice, the Bald Eagle -- 49 The Pleasures of Ornithology -- 50 The World of Raptors -- 51 The Sandpiper -- 52 The Bird We Named Aurora -- 53 Bird Feeders in the Woods -- 54 Those Magnificent Ravens -- 55 A Marten around the House -- 56 The Little Blond Demon -- 57 Ravens and Their Dirty Tricks -- 58 One Flew over the Ravens' Nest -- 59 Our Solitary Birds -- 60 A Happy Spring -- Epilogue -- About the Author.