With equal measures of wit, scientific wisdom, and homespun common sense, Alan Pistorius makes his lifelong love of birds come alive for anyone who wants to take up birding as a hobby or merely gain more pleasure from the birds around the home, cottage, or camp. With diagrams, illustrations, and full-color photographs throughout, this is a completely revised and updated version of Pistorius's popular Country Journal Book of Birding and Bird Attraction. The author advises readers on how to make their back yards havens for local birds, what constitutes proper food for birds, what to look for in well-designed feeders, how to build appropriate houses, and how to make baths that birds will actually use. Pistorius's style is lighthearted and humorous, and he's never averse to directing a little gentle humor at the foibles of fellow devotees when they begin to take themselves and their hobby too seriously.
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With equal measures of wit, scientific wisdom, and homespun common sense, Alan Pistorius's one-of-a-kind, all-inclusive guide provides all the information anyone needs to take up birding as a hobby or simply gain more pleasure from birds around the home, cottage or camp. Diagrams, illustrations, and full-color photographs show ways to make any backyard, whether an urban plot or rural spread, a haven for birds:
- What constitutes proper bird food
- Which feeders are well designed
- How to build houses birds will really use
About the Author
Alan Pistorius is a freelance writer, natural historian, and ocassional college teacher. He is also the author of Cutting Hill: A Chronicle of a Family Farm. He lives in Lincoln, Vermont.
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I encountered this gem of a book when a search engine threw this curveball at me when I typed in "backyard attraction". And what a lucky find? "Heaven can wait" as my better-groomed doppelganger Meatloaf might say. A marvelous guide.
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WE MODERNS TEND TO VISUALIZE WINTER in terms of scenery (moonlight through sifting snow), sport (rosy-cheeked ice skaters), and celebration (mistletoe and carol singing); in those terms, that is, enshrined in calendar and Christmas-card conventions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feeder watchers, dome feeder, several finches, sunflower feeders, several woodpeckers, roosting boxes, count circle, tube feeder, peanut hearts, white millet, nocturnal migration, many birders, cavity nesters, ground feeders, escape cover, hanging feeder, suet feeders, boreal chickadee, nesting cover, weather cover, eastern phoebe, feeder birds, great crested flycatcher, tufted titmouse, tree swallows Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North American, Big Day, Christmas Count, Big Year, New York, New England, United States, South America, Audubon Society, British Isles, Champlain Valley, Dead Creek, Mutton Hill, French Canadians, Island Pond, Pond Inlet, World War, Central American, Hardiness Zone, Little Bear, Moose Bog, Old World, Cape May, Forest Service, Kenn Kaufman New!
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WE MODERNS TEND TO VISUALIZE WINTER in terms of scenery (moonlight through sifting snow), sport (rosy-cheeked ice skaters), and celebration (mistletoe and carol singing); in those terms, that is, enshrined in calendar and Christmas-card conventions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feeder watchers, dome feeder, several finches, sunflower feeders, several woodpeckers, roosting boxes, count circle, tube feeder, peanut hearts, white millet, nocturnal migration, many birders, cavity nesters, ground feeders, escape cover, hanging feeder, suet feeders, boreal chickadee, nesting cover, weather cover, eastern phoebe, feeder birds, great crested flycatcher, tufted titmouse, tree swallows Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North American, Big Day, Christmas Count, Big Year, New York, New England, United States, South America, Audubon Society, British Isles, Champlain Valley, Dead Creek, Mutton Hill, French Canadians, Island Pond, Pond Inlet, World War, Central American, Hardiness Zone, Little Bear, Moose Bog, Old World, Cape May, Forest Service, Kenn Kaufman New!
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- Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder by Kenn Kaufman on page 148
- The Role of Insectivorous Birds in Forest Ecosystems by James G. Dickson on page 221
- Call Collect, Ask for Birdman by James M. Vardaman on page 151
- Twelve Days Of Christmas (Build a Story) by Traditional on page 53
- Little Bear (An I Can Read Book) by Elsa Holmelund Minarik on page 242
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