In the related “Dunnet Landing stories,” Jewett offers further glimpses of her fictional town, often delineating with unique sensitivity the theme of older people striving to live with dignity and security.
The story is about a girl’s love for both a young ornithologist and the heron for which he is searching, the haunting “Miss Tempy’s Watchers. A young city girl named Sylvia comes to live with her grandmother in the country. One day, while exploring the nearby woods, she meets a young ornithologist and hunter who is searching the woods for a rare bird he recently saw. Sylvia is torn between telling the hunter that she saw the bird or protecting the beautiful, rare creature.
Along the way, she discovers how at home she feels in the country and develops a deep love for the animals that inhabit the woods.
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