Jeff and Allison Wells Wed, 04/07/2021 - 8:00am The authors wrote their book with the hope of helping birders experience the joy of seeing birds for the first time. Courtesy of Jeff and Allison Wells. New birder (Jeff’s) brother Andy shared this photo of a wood duck at his feeder last fall, helping the authors recapture the excitement of seeing a bird for the first time. Courtesy of Andrew Roth-Wells. The pure joy of discovery. As children we often felt that joy, as we found something we had never seen or learned about something wondrous that we had only dreamed of or heard stories about. Sometimes it was something so new that we couldn’t even fathom it and were left puzzling. Those of us who were fortunate enough to spend time around a wise, loving, and supportive elder might have had the experience of learning some of these wondrous things from them.