My new field guide to the Birds of North America
By Tasteyg
- 7 Jan, 2009
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Yah, I'm excited! I bought this today for $10 from the bargain table at the bookstore. Now maybe I can name some of these little birds that I've been posting :) After I left the bookstore with my new purchase(s) I thought to myself, "The more I learn, the more I see." :) Like when you learn a new word and then it seems to pop up in conversations all the time.
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we had a bird spotting book for christmas. i've lived here for years and only started noticing the birds in recent years. we have buzzards seagulls and this year we had a woodpecker....
7 Jan, 2009
great buy Tracy. i have my pocket book guide to birds handy with me at all times lol
7 Jan, 2009
Good book. And I like the comments you've put underneath the photo about learning new words, and then finding you seem to hear and use those words more often. LOL
7 Jan, 2009
Gilli- This book didn't come with the bird calls. I think that I saw the sight that you mentioned though. Thanks for the address :)
See Sandra, you read your birding book and therefore you're more aware of your surroundings and now you see more :) Amazing what a little reading can do :)
What about now Irish, is your bird guide on you now?!? lol JK ;~)
Yes, TT lol :) Perhaps this is how the word 'enlightened' came about, or the phrase 'now I see the light', or perhaps the picture of a lightbulb above one's head when they get a 'bright' idea in cartoons or movies.
In the very informative words of Schoolhouse Rock 'knowlegde is power!' Does anyone on the other side of the pond and/or elsewhere (besides people from the US) know of this series of 3 minute educational cartoons? I grew up watching these. They were slipped in between commercials and cartoons like Bugs Bunny reruns and Scooby-Doo on Saturday mornings.
Here's a link to them:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=schoolhouse+rock&search_type=&aq=0&oq=schoolhouse
7 Jan, 2009
Never heard of those Tastey.
7 Jan, 2009
For those of us who grow up with them, it's a very notalgic feeling we get when we hear or see them. For those who know nothing about them, they probably seem outdated and corny.
7 Jan, 2009
definately corny...but we'd catch our selves singing them under our breath..."conjunction junction what's your function"
8 Jan, 2009
..."hookin' up words and phrases and clauses." Yes, Kmccue07, you know what I'm talking about :)
9 Jan, 2009
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This is a good book Tastey. If its the one I'm thinking of it used to come with a recording of bird calls. Does this one have a recording? There is a website that is pretty neat if you are looking for different bird calls. The address is......
http://www.whatbird.com/
Just type in the bird's name in the search box at the top and a new window opens up about the bird with a recording of the song.
7 Jan, 2009