Subject: [Tweeters] First Bird Book
Date: Sep 12 21:34:51 2006
From: Vicki Biltz Bonney Lake Wa. vickibiltz at comcast.net - VICKIBILTZ at comcast.net


My first book, I got in the late 70's, was the Golden. The pictures look the same now as they did then. A few years after I started birding, I sang at a funeral and got $100, and got the National Geographic's 1st guide, and the big book that came with it as a set. I also got little plastic like thin records that had bird calls it. It was the first time the Natl. Geo guide had been released. Best money I ever spent. I did keep records, of life birds, but not where I saw them and not the date, which of course I will always regret.

What was so upsetting to me was trying to find the House Sparrow in the 1st book, and when I first saw the Coot's I couldn't find them in the book with the ducks; so I thought they were a new species! (Of course I didn't know how to use the book either) And the first time I found DC Cormorant's it had been foggy, and I had to sit for hours waiting for the fog to lift. I was so disappointed, because they were very ugly!!!! One of my greatest rewards as a new birder, was when Black Crowned Night Herons were sitting in the tree across the lake from my Dad's cabin (in Ks)......we rowed a boat over to see them, and they were incredible to behold; my first really great birds...

Vicki Biltz Bonney Lake Wa
vickibiltz at comcast.net