By Mark Bittner
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is the inspiring tale of ways one guy discovered his life’s work—and actual love—among a gang of untamed parrots roosting in a single of America’s so much picturesque city settings.
Mark Bittner was once down on his good fortune. He’d long past to San Francisco on the age of twenty-one to take a stab at a song profession, yet he hadn’t had a lot good fortune. After a long time as an odd-jobber within the zone, he authorised paintings as a housekeeper for an aged girl. The gig got here with a rent-free studio condominium at the city’s famed Telegraph Hill, which had in some way turn into domestic to a flock of brilliantly coloured wild parrots.
In this unforgettable tale, Bittner recounts how he turned interested by the birds and made up his brain to get to understand them and achieve their belief. He succeeds to this sort of measure that he turns into the neighborhood wild parrot professional and a vacationer appeal. humans can’t aid gawking on the guy who, in the course of day-by-day feedings, stands with parrots perched alongside either palms and atop his head. while a documentary filmmaker comes alongside to catch the phenomenon on movie, the tale takes a stunning flip, and Bittner’s lifestyles really takes flight.
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