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On Sun, Nov 11, 2018, 2:59 PM lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible] < ible-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Thanks for starting this thread, Larry. I’ve birded Belize on several
> occasions & visited the Belize Zoo founded by Sharon Matola. Bruce Barcott
> authored a non-fiction book about Sharon’s environmental attempt to
> preserve the “Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw”, the book’s title. I won’t
> give the spoiler alert.
>
> Others are more field guide oriented: my grandmother’s “Audubon Guide All
> Birds of East & Central North America” by Richard Pough 1953 ed, for
> sentimental reasons. Although, it does have interesting info on Eskimo
> Curlew, Ivory-billed WP & Kirtland’s Warbler. Also, a Christmas gift from
> my parents the yr I got my BS in Wildlife Biology: the 2 vol “The Bird Life
> of Texas” by Oberholser & illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Packed
> with great bird biology info from a time when field studies were, indeed,
> hands-on.
>
> Not, a bird oriented book but I also enjoy books about the Rocky Mt
> fur-trapper era. And an Idahoan, Vardis Fisher, who wrote the popular
> “Mountain Man”, also wrote a now out-of-print book “Pemmican” about the
> Canadian Rockies fur-trapper era when North West trappers were competing
> with Hudson Bay trappers. A great read & can sometimes locate on secondary
> market.
>
> Brian Carrigan
> Blackfoot
>
>

Lower dam 5 eared grebe. Outlet canal a dunlin

Spent a beautiful, clear, calm morning yesterday up on Scout Mountain
before the road is closed for the season. At about 8:45 it was fully
daylight, but the woods were still in the shadow of the mountain so I
thought I’d try to whistle up a northern pygmy owl. Mountain chickadees
and red-breasted nuthatches were immediately responsive and a pygmy owl owl
soon called back. The bird list was reflective of the bounty of Douglas
fir cones up on the mountain. It was difficult to count all the
red-breasted nuthatches as I was almost never out of earshot of at least 2
calling, often times it was 4 calling and sometimes 6! A few black-capped
chickadees were among the many mountains. I encountered many flocks of
pine siskins and red crossbills and a few Cassin’s finches. Clark’s
nutcrackers were in full voice and were frequently found flying overhead.
Three pine grosbeaks were a nice treat. After being all over the place
last winter, I have yet to encounter an evening grosbeak this season in
Bannock County. It was 11 degrees when I arrived, but a balmy 35 when I
left. See you in May, mountain.

Steven F. Kahl
Deputy Project Leader
Southeast Idaho National Wildlife Refuge Complex
4425 Burley Dr., Ste. A
Chubbuck, ID 83202
C (208) 252-0805
P (208) 237-6615 ext 112
F (208) 237-8213

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I must say thank you to everyone who has responded so far…… several of you replied off-line, and I see many great ideas for further reading !!

The Berthold book on migration is not what I’d call an easy read, but fascinating to me because I’m grounded in the physical sciences (which means data, lots of data), and bird migration just plain rocks!

Best events I’ve attended include the TOS (Texas Ornithological Society) 50th Anniversary Conference on the coastal bend of Texas (loads of people) and a small workshop on bird migration (maybe 15 people) sponsored by the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory… Ken Able was there (Gatherings of Angels, Migrating Birds and their Ecology, 1999), and so was Chandler Robbins (Golden Guide, 1983) !!! Whoa Nellie!

Back to more reading…….. and more birding !! 😉

LA

From: “Cliff and Lisa Weisse”
To: “Larry Arnold” , “IBLE”
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 11:58:20 AM
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Birding Books……

Don’t miss The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman.

Cliff
On 11/11/18 12:26 PM, LARRY ARNOLD [ mailto:larnold47@cableone.net | larnold47@cableone.net ] [ible] wrote:

Anyone else crazy like me and collect these things?

I’m talking about Lane Guides, field guides, atlases for western states and provinces, as well as binders of data collected and analyzed and reanalyzed AND graphed……… 2 yrs in the UK, 2 yrs in Germany, 2 yrs in New Mexico, several yrs in Nevada, several yrs in Utah, 1 yr in Alaska, 3 yrs in New Mexico, 15 yrs in Colorado, 6 yrs here in Boise ID, yada yada…….et yada!

Among my favorites are these:

Wild America (RTP and James Fisher, 1955)

Living on the Wind (Scott Weidensaul, 1999)

Bird Migration, A General Survey (Peter Berthold, 2001) * * *

Birding on Borrowed Time (Phoebe Snetsinger, 2003)

Kingbird Highway (Kenn Kaufman, 2006)

Travels in Alaska (John Muir, 1915)

For the fun of it……. Anyone else have their faves and don’t mind sharing? =)

Larry, W Boise

—
Cliff and Lisa Weisse
Island Park, Idaho [ mailto:cliffandlisa@octobersetters.com | cliffandlisa@octobersetters.com ]

A book that I’ve had for years and has great info is sibley’s guide to bird
life and behavior.info on breeding feeding etc.

Don’t miss The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman.

Cliff

On 11/11/18 12:26 PM, LARRY ARNOLD larnold47@cableone.net [ible] wrote:
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>
>
> Anyone else crazy like me and collect these things?
>
> I’m talking about Lane Guides, field guides, atlases for western
> states and provinces, as well as binders of data collected and
> analyzed and reanalyzed AND graphed………2 yrs in the UK, 2 yrs in
> Germany, 2 yrs in New Mexico, several yrs in Nevada, several yrs in
> Utah, 1 yr in Alaska, 3 yrs in New Mexico, 15 yrs in Colorado, 6 yrs
> here in Boise ID, yada yada…….et yada!
>
> Among my favorites are these:
>
> Wild America (RTP and James Fisher, 1955)
>
> Living on the Wind (Scott Weidensaul, 1999)
>
> Bird Migration, A General Survey (Peter Berthold, 2001) * * *
>
> Birding on Borrowed Time (Phoebe Snetsinger, 2003)
>
> Kingbird Highway (Kenn Kaufman, 2006)
>
> Travels in Alaska (John Muir, 1915)
>
> For the fun of it…….Anyone else have their faves and don’t mind sharing?=)
>
> Larry, W Boise
>
>
>
>

—
Cliff and Lisa Weisse
Island Park, Idaho
cliffandlisa@octobersetters.com

“Refuge “ by Terry Tempest Williams

The book that got me started in birding.

Bob

> On Nov 11, 2018, at 22:11, Chuck Trost trostchuck@cableone.net [ible] wrote:
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> I’ve read all those mentioned. Here are a couple more: Hope is the thing with feathers by Christopher Cokinos, An Eagle to the sky by Fran Hamerstrom, and The wind masters by Pete Dunne. It is fun to go back and re-read them too.
> Cheers,
> Chuck Trost
>
> Always forward, never straight…
>
>> On Nov 11, 2018, at 12:57 PM, Kerry Fitzharris birderfitz@gmail.com [ible] wrote:
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>> I’d love to chime in on any discussion like this, Larry. I really enjoyed A Parrot Without a Name by Don Stop. My all time favorite is Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth with a forward by W.S. Merwin. Favorite poetry books on birds anything by Mary Oliver and “Shared Sigtings: An Anthology of Bird Poems”, edited by Sheila Golburgh Johnson.
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>> Kerry
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>>> On Nov 11, 2018, at 12:26 PM, LARRY ARNOLD larnold47@cableone.net [ible] wrote:
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>>> Anyone else crazy like me and collect these things?
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>>> I’m talking about Lane Guides, field guides, atlases for western states and provinces, as well as binders of data collected and analyzed and reanalyzed AND graphed……… 2 yrs in the UK, 2 yrs in Germany, 2 yrs in New Mexico, several yrs in Nevada, several yrs in Utah, 1 yr in Alaska, 3 yrs in New Mexico, 15 yrs in Colorado, 6 yrs here in Boise ID, yada yada…….et yada!
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>>> Among my favorites are these:
>>> Wild America (RTP and James Fisher, 1955)
>>> Living on the Wind (Scott Weidensaul, 1999)
>>> Bird Migration, A General Survey (Peter Berthold, 2001) * * *
>>> Birding on Borrowed Time (Phoebe Snetsinger, 2003)
>>> Kingbird Highway (Kenn Kaufman, 2006)
>>> Travels in Alaska (John Muir, 1915)
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>>> For the fun of it……. Anyone else have their faves and don’t mind sharing? =)
>>>
>>> Larry, W Boise
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I birded in the Lewis-Clark Valley, this Sunday, with excellent results. I
started at the Port of Lewiston, where I quickly the reported LONG-TAILED
DUCK swimming along the south side of the river, southeast of the east
grain terminal. A boat soon flushed it, and I lost track of it and moved
on. A singe BOHEMIAN WAXWING (my first of fall and not common in the
valley) flew a couple of circles, overhead.

Mann Lake was characteristically enjoyable with highlights including ~70
Snow Geese, 5 DUNLIN, 2-3 SWAMP SPARROWS, 1 WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, 4
American Tree Sparrows, 1 Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler, and as I was
leaving a single calling (and briefly “binoculared”) LAPLAND LONGSPUR flew
over the creek inlet area with a few Horned Larks. The longspur is
presumably not chase-able. The Swamp Sparrows were foraging well away from
the water and with many song sparrows on the east side of the lake, beyond
the juniper row if traveling counter-clockwise from the mode airplane
area. Photos and complete list on eBird:
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S49861553.

Hell’s Gate SP had a lingering Say’s Phoebe. I birded Kiwanis Park,
uneventfully, and then Clearwater Landing, along the Lewiston Levee east of
West Pond. From there, I scoped across the river. With patience I refound
the Long-tailed Duck swimming right next to the barge directly across,
diving frequently, staying under water for a long time, and only surfacing
for a few seconds at a time. In the nearby trees I found my latest
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER for north Idaho. There are no previous November or
winter records of the warbler in eBird for north Idaho, but there are a
couple from the Clarkston, Washington area.

I ended the day in Washington at Swallows Park, finding none of the recent
rarities, and a quick trip up to Anatone for a Prairie Falcon, an American
Tree-Sparrow, and a probably flock of Gray-crowned Rosy-finches.

Good Birding,

Carl Lundblad
Moscow, ID

I have a bunch of the books mentioned by others, and I’ve read some of the ones I don’t have. I’d have to say Birding on Borrowed Time and Kingbird Highway are my favorites. I read the Phoebe Snetsinger book while I was going through chemo, so it had a real impact on me. And Kenn Kaufmann’s wanderings around the country included a trip to Yosemite at a time I was living there (and wearing the very fashionable Army field jacket—like Kenn).

One that hasn’t been mentioned so far is To See Every Bird on Earth, by Dan Koeppel. It’s a story by a son about his father’s obsession with birds. (Not that any of us can relate to obsession.)

BTW, I started with the Peterson’s Field Guide to the Birds, Eastern, in 1970. I now have a 3 shelf bookcase that is filled, plus a pile on the floor in front of it.

Almost forgot: John James Audubon, The Making of an American, by Richard Rhodes, is an excellent read that gave me new insight into why Audubon and his paintings were ground-breaking in their time—and still timeless.

Tom McCabe, Boise

From: ible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Kerry Fitzharris birderfitz@gmail.com [ible]
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2018 1:10 PM
To: LARRY ARNOLD
Cc: IBLE
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Birding Books……

And Ted Kooser’s “Barn Owl” poem.

On Nov 11, 2018, at 12:26 PM, LARRY ARNOLD larnold47@cableone.net [ible] > wrote:

Anyone else crazy like me and collect these things?

I’m talking about Lane Guides, field guides, atlases for western states and provinces, as well as binders of data collected and analyzed and reanalyzed AND graphed……… 2 yrs in the UK, 2 yrs in Germany, 2 yrs in New Mexico, several yrs in Nevada, several yrs in Utah, 1 yr in Alaska, 3 yrs in New Mexico, 15 yrs in Colorado, 6 yrs here in Boise ID, yada yada…….et yada!

Among my favorites are these:

Wild America (RTP and James Fisher, 1955)

Living on the Wind (Scott Weidensaul, 1999)

Bird Migration, A General Survey (Peter Berthold, 2001) * * *

Birding on Borrowed Time (Phoebe Snetsinger, 2003)

Kingbird Highway (Kenn Kaufman, 2006)

Travels in Alaska (John Muir, 1915)

For the fun of it……. Anyone else have their faves and don’t mind sharing? =)

Larry, W Boise

Thanks for starting this thread, Larry. I’ve birded Belize on several occasions & visited the Belize Zoo founded by Sharon Matola. Bruce Barcott authored a non-fiction book about Sharon’s environmental attempt to preserve the “Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw”, the book’s title. I won’t give the spoiler alert.

Others are more field guide oriented: my grandmother’s “Audubon Guide All Birds of East & Central North America” by Richard Pough 1953 ed, for sentimental reasons. Although, it does have interesting info on Eskimo Curlew, Ivory-billed WP & Kirtland’s Warbler. Also, a Christmas gift from my parents the yr I got my BS in Wildlife Biology: the 2 vol “The Bird Life of Texas” by Oberholser & illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Packed with great bird biology info from a time when field studies were, indeed, hands-on.

Not, a bird oriented book but I also enjoy books about the Rocky Mt fur-trapper era. And an Idahoan, Vardis Fisher, who wrote the popular “Mountain Man”, also wrote a now out-of-print book “Pemmican” about the Canadian Rockies fur-trapper era when North West trappers were competing with Hudson Bay trappers. A great read & can sometimes locate on secondary market.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot