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

Thanks for the info about maps.me. I’ll have to look it up.
Sounds like something I need.

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

> On Nov 11, 2018, at 1:13 PM, jmeredit@bendnet.com [ible] wrote:
>
> [Attachment(s) from jmeredit@bendnet.com included below]
> Favs,
>
> The Moon Bird – about Red Knots – migration, conservation. Called Juvenile non-fiction in some libraries for some reason.
>
> Last of the Curlews – old book, sad and terrific about extinction. A real classic.
>
> Golden Guide to Birds of North America – ancient, but those SONOGRAMS!
>
> And for books in the field today, I keep both Nat Geo and new Big Sibley in the car. Each new edition of Nat Geo comes out as my current one is worn out and falling apart from loving use. A ragged Delorme is always in the car, one for which ever state I am in. Birders go where there is no cell coverage, so navigation apps can be useless!
>
> Which brings me to MAPS.ME which is not a book, but a free app for your phone. It works without cell coverage, off global positioning, but you download areas in advance of trying to use it. You can find trailheads, forest roads, bike paths, etc in addition to freeways, motels, gas stations, cities, all countries, all continents. Saved a friend lost in the forest when she lost her trail and could have been out all night in freezing temps.
>
> Good question. Judy Meredith, jmeredit@bendnet.com
>
>> On 11-11-2018 11:26, 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
>> Posted by: LARRY ARNOLD
>>
>
>

There is a Dunlin and 2 Greater Yellowlegs at the lower dam. The birds are near the southwest end of the dam mixed in with 23 pied billed grebes. The last time I saw the birds they were standing on the matted plants just past the old beaver den.

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Favs,

The Moon Bird – about Red Knots – migration, conservation. Called
Juvenile non-fiction in some libraries for some reason.

Last of the Curlews – old book, sad and terrific about extinction. A
real classic.

Golden Guide to Birds of North America – ancient, but those SONOGRAMS!

And for books in the field today, I keep both Nat Geo and new Big Sibley
in the car. Each new edition of Nat Geo comes out as my current one is
worn out and falling apart from loving use. A ragged Delorme is always
in the car, one for which ever state I am in. Birders go where there is
no cell coverage, so navigation apps can be useless!

Which brings me to MAPS.ME which is not a book, but a free app for your
phone. It works without cell coverage, off global positioning, but you
download areas in advance of trying to use it. You can find trailheads,
forest roads, bike paths, etc in addition to freeways, motels, gas
stations, cities, all countries, all continents. Saved a friend lost in
the forest when she lost her trail and could have been out all night in
freezing temps.

Good question. Judy Meredith, jmeredit@bendnet.com

On 11-11-2018 11:26, 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
>
> ————————-
> Posted by: LARRY ARNOLD
> ————————-

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:
>
> 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.
>
>
> Kerry
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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.

Kerry

> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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

Wowzers, we had a female long tail in Nampa 1/18/2000 at the Wilson ponds fish hatchery. Headed to Cascade on Friday, hope it sticks around?
Rich

Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 10, 2018, at 11:00 PM, LARRY ARNOLD larnold47@cableone.net [ible] wrote:
>
>
> you rock !!!
>
> From: “Cheryl Huizinga bchuizinga@cableone.net [ible]”
> To: “IBLE”
> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2018 12:26:55 PM
> Subject: [IBLE] Long-tailed Duck in Valley co Sugarloaf campground Bay
>
>
> The SIBA FT to Valley Co found a female Long-tailed Duck on Cascade reservoir. Seen from Sugarloaf Campground swimming and diving in the bay- SE of boat launch.
> Cheryl Huizinga
>
> Cheryl Huizinga
> Caldwell, Idaho
>
>