.dropcap { color: #838078; float: left; font-size: 82px; line-height: 60px; padding: 5px 8px 0 0; } .art-aside-tmp { height: auto !important; min-height: auto !important; } On a May morning I’m walking with Sarah T. Dubb into Tucson’s Sweetwater Wetlands Park, a surprising oasis just off I-10 and a key waypoint on the author’s journey as a birder. We’ve come to see the wildlife that helped inspire her new romance novel, Birding With Benefits. But before we even get started, a harried man with binoculars walks up to us, gesticulating at a nearby cottonwood. “If a Cooper’s Hawk hits you on the head, don’t be surprised!” he warns. The raptor is guarding a nest and apparently didn’t like the look of this fellow. “Thanks for the heads up!” says Dubb, her chunky cactus earrings swaying as she falls gamely into a chat. Her pun was unintentional, and it appears to be a charming habit: Not two minutes later, I remark on the jaw-dropping...