In a message dated 9/13/2006 5:35:23 AM GMT Daylight Time,
VICKIBILTZ at comcast.net writes:

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
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Vicki--your posting reminded me that my first book, given to me about 1950,
was the original Peterson. I was in the Cascade Mtns. at the time, and the
first bird I tried to identify was one of the woodpeckers. That's as far as I
got in my new book . . . : > ) Murray
(Mrs.) Murray Hansen
Graham, WA
MurrayH at aol.com