This chapter focuses on Woolf's “familiarity with and appreciation” for the work of ornithologist W. H. Hudson (1841–1922). Despite differences in sex and socialization, age and reputation, Hudson and Woolf were kindred spirits. Both had distinctive childhood experiences of non-urban places that reverberate throughout their writing. Both were educated and enthusiastic common readers. Without university degrees or positions, both defined themselves as outsiders—Hudson among academic scientists in an adopted country and Woolf among academic, mostly male, biographers and critics. The chapter uses two of Hudson's books to create cultural contexts for Woolf's writing. When Woolf reviewed Hudson's memoir Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life in 1918, she linked his interest in birds with his flights of words. In her later fiction, she re-envisioned Hudson's attempt in his bird-filled 1904 novel Green Mansions to express oneness with nature.