Contents: Loans and Grebes: The Loan -- Loon neck feathers -- Loon lucky twice -- A Water witch -- Pelicans : The Pelican affair -- The Heron family: Lost, strayed or abandoned -- More eyes that look under the beak -- Introducing ''Big Cranky'' -- When the legs dont work -- Ducks and Geese: The Nine tarbabies -- The Inflatable merganser of other diving ducks -- The Goose guest -- The Story of Yik -- The Hawk family: An Oar for an Osprey -- Harriers: After the haybine -- Bill's way -- The Half - brained hawk -- About starvation -- The Hawk that came back -- The Story of left and right -- Vultures, eagles and krestrels: The Vulture's secret weapon -- Just an eagle on my freezer -- Puck -- All suki's babies -- An Asphalt death -- Moorhens: Semaphore's secrets -- Doves and pigeons: The peace of the dove -- The Tale of bumfeathers -- Feminine tactics -- The Owl Family: Romulus -- A Logging surprise -- Big she -- Bachelor's baby -- A Box for wowl -- City owl -- The Raptor robber -- A Dreadful encounter -- Pogo: Defeating the indefatigable -- A Snowy flies home in a hercules -- Woodpeckers: Raising baby pileateds -- Passerines: Games with a raven.