UNIVERSITY OF XXL BIRD WATCHING Two-Tone Raglan Sleeve Hooded Sweatshirt (Your Choice Of Colors)
October 25, 2008
Brand is Jerzees Contrasting Raglan Sleeve Hooded Sweatshirt - 8 ounce 50% cotton/50% polyester NuBlend, Ribbed spandex collar, cuffs and waistband. Contrast jersey lined hood. Straight raglan sleeves Buy from here…
Bird Watching: The Beginner’s Guide to Identifying Garden Birds
October 25, 2008
Audubon Video Guide To 258 Song And Garden Birds Of North America DVD II
October 25, 2008
Guide to Hawk Watching in North America (Birding Series)
October 25, 2008
Customer Review: Guide to Hawk Watching in North America
This review by Ron Pittaway was published in OFO News 22(3):2 October 2004, newsletter of the Ontario Field Ornithologists.
Guide to Hawk Watching in North America. 2003. Second Edition. Donald S. Heintzelman. The Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut. ISBN 0-7627-2670-9. Softcover, 425 pages. US$16.95.
This guide gives descriptions and directions to 460 spring and fall hawkwatching sites in North America. It rates them as poor, fair, good, excellent. Fourteen sites are described for Ontario. Amherst Island is listed under other viewing areas. The Fisherville area for winter viewing should be listed in the next edition. Bald Eagle watching etiquette and viewing areas are described.
Every North American diurnal raptor is described under these heading: field recognition, wingspread, length, flight style, voice, nest and eggs, longevity, food, habitat, and range in North America.
Included is information on watching hawks such as judging size and shape, flight style and behaviour, distance from observer and viewing angle, light conditions, habitat, field equipment, owl decoys, etc. The chapter on migration seasons has excellent visual bar graphs showing the spring and fall migration periods for eastern North America and a fall bar graph for western North America. The chapter on mechanics of hawk flights discusses weather conditions, deflective updrafts, lee waves, thermals, thermal streets, squall lines, and leading-lines.
I highly recommend this informative and useful book. It is the hawkwatcher’s companion.
Customer Review: Guide to Hawk Watching in North America (FalconGuide)
Reprinted from my review in Wildlife Activist, Number 49.
Guide to Hawk Watching in North America by Donald S. Heintzelman. 2004. Paper. Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, CT. $16.95.
In 1979, Don Heintzelman published his first edition of A Guide to Hawk Watching in North America. This pioneering guide (based on his previous guides to eastern hawk watching) provided the hawkwatcher with the two major essentials of hawk watching: information on raptor identification, especially migrating (i.e. flying) raptors, and places and times to observe migrating hawks. A quarter century has passed, hawk watching has become one of the most popular branches of birding, and much has been learned about hawk migration and identification, leading to the need for this 2004 FalconGuide edition. Little is changed in the format from the first edition except that the section of raptor photo plates of the 1979 guide has been deleted. (This makes sense in light of the fact that several excellent raptor ID guides now exist and are referenced here, while none existed in 1979.) Although the format is unchanged, the text has been updated, especially with respect to raptor watch sites, with the number of sites nearly doubled (to 460) in the current guide. Each site account includes a description of the site, how to find it, and a rating for spring and autumn flights based on a unique rating system developed by the author. In addition to raptor migration sites, there are also sections of Bald Eagle observation sites and of other raptor viewing sites. The species accounts include wingspan and length, field recognition, flight style, voice, nest, eggs, longevity (this is new and quite interesting), food, habits, and range in North America.
For the novice hawk watcher, here is all you need to get started or improve your skill. For the veteran, the guide is a good refresher on hawk migration and gives you an endless supply of sites to visit in North America. So whether you are a relative newcomer or a seasoned veteran with a dog-eared copy of the 1979 book, it is well worth the affordable price to invest in this FalconGuide edition of Guide to Hawk Watching in North America. DRK Buy from here…
Hanging Dragonfly Birdbath
October 25, 2008
15″ Diameter and 24″ Chain. Buy from here…
Birding the Flagstaff area
October 22, 2008
Birds of America: Prepared Under the Auspices of the University Society (3 volumes in 1)
October 22, 2008
A large, oversize, complete and authorative book on the birds of North America. In addition to hundreds of photographs and line drawings, there are, included in this single volume, all of the 106 famous Fuertes plates. It also contains five pages of reproductions of eggs in their natural size and color. Buy from here…
Bushnell 12×50 Legend Rainguard Binoculars 191250 Plus Accessory Package
October 22, 2008
Designed by hunters for hunters, Bushnell Legend binoculars offer the serious enthusiast the outstanding optics and features they demand. Expect stunningly bright and crisp images. You’ll be able to scoff at precipitous conditions, at least in regards to your binocular, thanks to the patented Rainguard coatings on external surfaces which make all forms of condensation become tiny droplets and thus scatter less light. The 12×50 porro prism model is ideal for big game and birds, with excellent depth perception to the image. +Plus+ Accessory Package:- Multipurpose Lens Pen Cleaning Tool - Micro-Fiber Cleaning Cloth 5.25×5.75 in. Buy from here…
A Birder’s Guide to the Chicago Region
October 22, 2008
Customer Review: Two Great Birders = One great Birding Guide!
Both Lynne Carpenter and Joel Greenberg are well known in the Chicago area as great birders. And I’ve been lucky to have had the pleasure of birding with both of them. I am so grateful that they’ve committed their knowledge to this book. If you bird in the Chicago area then this book is a “must have” for your birding library.
Customer Review: Please do more cities!
Absolutely unparalleled — I completely agree that this book is the best I have seen of its kind. I only wish there were such exquisitely detailed birding information available for other cities I frequent, such as Philly, D.C., and Boston. Buy from here…
Watching Penguins in Antarctica (Wild World)
October 22, 2008
