{"id":24883,"date":"2025-08-26T18:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24883\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:49:21","slug":"excerpt-the-backyard-bird-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24883\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt: \u2018The Backyard Bird Chronicles\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"body-dropcap css-zl8rwv emevuu60\"><strong>A<\/strong>my Tan\u2019s charming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altaonline.com\/california-book-club\/a64626082\/amy-tan-backyard-bird-chronicles-california-book-club-september-2025-selection\/\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.altaonline.com\/california-book-club\/a64626082\/amy-tan-backyard-bird-chronicles-california-book-club-september-2025-selection\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"The Backyard Bird Chronicles\" class=\"body-link css-1am3w39 emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Backyard Bird Chronicles<\/a> is an illustrated nature journal covering a span of five years, during which Tan observed and drew the dramas of scrub jays, owls, crows, chickadees, pygmy nuthatches, goldfinches, hummingbirds, and dark-eyed juncos, among many other birds. Here are a few of the images from the book.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">\u2014The Editors<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"amy tan, backyard bird chronicles, fledeling scrub jay tales\" title=\"amy tan, backyard bird chronicles, fledeling scrub jay tales\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2242\" height=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/scrub-jays-backyard-bird-chronicles-amy-tan-68a614ef2cfa6.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amy Tan<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"amy tan, backyard bird chronicles, chickadee\" title=\"amy tan, backyard bird chronicles, chickadee\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2121\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/chickadee-backyard-bird-chronicles-amy-tan-68a614f11cd5d.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amy Tan<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"amy tan, backyard bird chronicles, murder of crows\" title=\"amy tan, backyard bird chronicles, murder of crows\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2235\" height=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/murder-of-crows-backyard-bird-chronicles-amy-tan-68a614ef2fc54.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amy Tan<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"amy tan, backyard bird chronicles, great horned owl\" title=\"amy tan, backyard bird chronicles, great horned owl\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2276\" height=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/great-horned-owl-backyard-bird-chronicles-amy-tan-68a614ef0662a.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amy Tan<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Excerpted from The Backyard Bird Chronicles, by Amy Tan. Published by Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. \u00a9 2024 Amy Tan. All rights reserved. <\/p>\n<p>THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES, BY AMY TAN<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-theme-key=\"product-image-wrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/11794\/9780593536131\" aria-label=\"$33 at Bookshop for &lt;i&gt;THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES&lt;\/i&gt;, BY AMY TAN\" data-href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/11794\/9780593536131\" data-product-url=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/11794\/9780593536131\" data-affiliate=\"false\" data-affiliate-url=\"\" data-affiliate-network=\"\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"$33 at Bookshop\" data-vars-ga-media-role=\"\" data-vars-ga-media-type=\"Single Product Embed\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/11794\/9780593536131\" data-vars-ga-product-id=\"4f2253dd-4a77-4ab8-b9db-a1a88a6bd940\" data-vars-ga-product-price=\"$33.48\" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id=\"83b7024a-28a3-467f-8923-c932d5934f7d\" data-vars-ga-link-treatment=\"(not set) | (not set)\" class=\"product-image-link ebgq4gw2 e1b8bpvs0 css-g6od0w e1c1bym14\" data-><img  alt=\"&lt;i&gt;THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES&lt;\/i&gt;, BY AMY TAN\" title=\"&lt;i&gt;THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES&lt;\/i&gt;, BY AMY TAN\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1745966906-backyard-bird-chronicles-2000x1000-68114e7adea19.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Join us on Thursday, September 18, at 5 p.m. Pacific time, when Amy Tan will sit down with CBC host John Freeman and special guest John Muir Laws to discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/11794\/9780593536131\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/11794\/9780593536131\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"The Backyard Bird Chronicles\" data-vars-ga-product-id=\"397fa65d-011e-4f86-92bc-b444af2ae620\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/11794\/9780593536131\" data-product-url=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/11794\/9780593536131\" data-affiliate=\"false\" data-affiliate-url=\"\" data-affiliate-network=\"\" data-vars-ga-product-price=\"$33.48\" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id=\"ab4ea6a2-5a84-4803-b8d5-46131836e7e8\" data-vars-ga-link-treatment=\"(not set) | (not set)\" class=\"body-link product-links css-1am3w39 e1aq0z090\" data->The Backyard Bird Chronicles<\/a>. Register for the Zoom conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/altaonline.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_t5ch41CcQq6D9tWjXDTW5A\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/altaonline.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_t5ch41CcQq6D9tWjXDTW5A\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"here\" class=\"body-link css-1am3w39 emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amy Tan\u2019s charming The Backyard Bird Chronicles is an illustrated nature journal covering a span of five years,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[20778,20779,359,18,117,20780,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-24883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-amy-tan","9":"tag-backyard-bird-chronicles","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-excerpt","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}