This beautiful keepsake, full-color, 79-page* photo book delights us with a wide range of unique and intriguing photographs, depicting many of the birds and other wildlife that can be seen at Patuxent Research Refuge. The book's creator is generous refuge-supporter Barbara J. Saffir -- author, wildlife photographer and Certified Master Naturalist. Her photographs go well beyond "pretty pictures"; they give us fascinating glimpses into the lives and behaviors of the wildlife, large and small, that share the vital expanses of forest, field and aquatic habitats around us on this "urban" national wildlife refuge, a refuge often cited as the "green lungs" between Baltimore and Washington, DC. (*76 photo-pages +3 index pages; printed in USA.)