Better Birdwatching in Oregon & Washington
May 29, 2008
Life is Simple - Bird Hat
May 29, 2008
Life is Simple. Eat. Sleep. Bird. The perfect shirt for the serious birder! Buy from here…
Taylor’s Weekend Gardening Guide to Attracting Birds and Butterflies: How to Plant a Backyard Habitat to Attract Hummingbirds and Other Winged Wildlife (Taylor’s Weekend Gardening Guides)
May 29, 2008
Nature’s colorful creatures will flock to the yard when you follow the guidelines set forth in this book. Attractive flowers and natural plantings will attract birds and butterflies throughout the season.
Customer Review: attractingbirds and butterflies to your garden
The butterflies were a definate plus in my garden this year, will be working on the birds this year! Buy from here…
Bird Watching (Know the Game)
May 29, 2008
Stokes Birdfeeder Book : The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Understanding Your Feeder Birds
May 29, 2008
Customer Review: Bird Book
Good book, has a lot of useful information and tips on how to attact birds to your home feeders. Could be a bit more expansive, but pictures are great. All-in-all a helpful book. Won’t know until spring whether the tips to attract the birds works or not.
Customer Review: Good Book, Slightly Misleading Title
This book is subtitled “The complete guide to attracting, identifying, and understanding your feeder birds.” While it is good at the “indentifying” and “understanding” parts, it leaves something to be desired in the “attracting” department. I had hoped for a book that would tell me what has a good chance of drawing specific birds, but except for hummingbirds, it really doesn’t go into detail about the topic. It’s still a good book as far as it goes; I simply don’t think that it’s much of a guide to attracting the specific birds you have reason to believe are in your area, but goes with a considerably more general approach. Buy from here…
The Birdwatcher’s Companion (A Think Book)
May 27, 2008
National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: Colorado (NG Field Guide to Birds)
May 27, 2008
Designed to fit in a backpack or pocket for easy access, each of these handy and popular bird field guides comprises 272 pages and features about 175 birds organized by family as approved by the American Ornithological Union. Standard features include:
Locator Map at the front listing regional birding hotspots;
Introduction by an expert on where to find the state’s top birds
How-To-Use Section with general tips on birding and advice on making the most of the guide;
125 Easy-Access Individual Entries providing a photograph of the bird in its habitat, recognition clues, specific details on behavior, habitat, and local sites, plus a special “Field Note” with artwork for extra help in tricky identifications;
Alphabetical Index with life list; and
Color-coded Index.
Colorado is a unique birding spot, with mountain terrain and flatlands, each with its own characteristic mix of birds. Noted species include the grouselike White Ptarmigan; the incomparable Golden Eagle; the American Dipper; the Eared Grebe, and the chestnut-colored Longspur.
Customer Review: book on birds of Colorado
Recipient seems quite pleased with the book.
It arrived in a timely fashion and was in excellent condition.
Customer Review: Decent, but could be better.
The actual pictures of the birds are vivid and clear, which makes it nice to look at and easy to identify the birds. However, since there is only one picture of the bird you had better hope that whatever you are trying to identify looks exactly as it does in the book. That being said, the book is lacking important juvenile, breeding and male/female distinctions in feather color and markings which could make it pretty difficult to identify specific types of birds. Buy from here…
Alpen 15-30×50 Waterproof Spotting Scope
May 27, 2008
Alpen 15-30×50mm Waterproof Multi Coated Straight Spotting Scope 730 Buy from here…
Varicraft The Bouncer Squirrel Proof Feeder (Model SBF-1)
May 27, 2008
Comes fully assembled
Customer Review: NO SQUIRRELS
No Squirrels, No Kidding.
Great Bird feeder. It is big, and the squirrels hate it. They don’t even bother after a while. Quality is superb. I have tried everything, and this thing works. I got it at Sears for 37 bucks (on line). Get two before they realize the priced it wrong.
Doug Erley Buy from here…
The Backyard Birdhouse Book: Building Nestboxes and Creating Natural Habitats
May 27, 2008
Includes complete plans for 8 easy-to-build birdhouses tailored to the specific needs of 25 cavity-nesting species. Everything a reader needs to know to become a backyard bird conservationist.
Customer Review: Backyard Birding
excellent for the backyard birder. It offers really useful ideas for attracting birds and keeping them coming to your yard.
Customer Review: Great guide
I was sent this then-new book seven or eight years ago to review for my newspaper column on birds, and found it to be an excellent guide, not only on how to build boxes for all sorts of cavity-nesting birds, but also how to deal with problems like predators and pests. I built one of the boxes; it went together well and has served quite a few feathered families over the past five or six years. Buy from here…
