Birdwatcher's Daily Companion: 365 Days of Advice, Insight, and Information for Enthusiastic Birders

by Marcus H. Schneck, Marcus Schneck, Tom Warhol

Embrace your love of bird watching every day of the year. Birdwatcher’s Daily Companion contains 365 days of advice, insight, and information for enthusiastic birders.

By nature, bird lovers are naturalists and collectors, and you know how easy it is to devote hours upon hours of time—a lifetime, in fact—to your hobby. Birdwatcher’s Daily Companion is a fun, sophisticated way to be newly inspired, every day of the year. This unique guide contains insight into everything from how to identify look-alike species to planting a hummingbird garden, planning birding travel, and so much more.

Throughout the birdwatcher’s year, you’ll find:

- Mondays: Bird-finding tips and techniques
- Tuesdays: All about species identification
- Wednesdays: Ideas for birding excursions and travel
- Thursdays: Learn to find and attract birds to your backyard
- Fridays: Birds in history and mythology
- Saturdays & Sundays: Birding projects and activities

Enjoy birdwatching tips and information, from birds in mythology to birds in your backyard.

Genres: Birds

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Librarian note: Please don't just merge with "Marcus Schneck". These two books have his middle initial.

Reviews

[Alfred Keep · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall the book is ok. There were a few topics that I was not impressed with. One topic was " How to hand feed birds". This is never a good thing to teach birds to feed out of your hand. Just because you may have innocent intentions. The next person may not have these same intentions. The second topic that was wrong. "How to get close to nesting birds". This is another horrible topic to teach. It is never good to get close to nesting birds. This is the most stressful time of the year for them.

[CathyMW · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked the variety of information offered--from species highlights to mythology to possible excursions to backyard tips. I liked how they organized it with different type topics for each day of the week.

I don't think that I would read it through again, but the index will help it be a nice reference.

[Tom Greentree · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable romp through various aspects of birding, from highlighting particular species, advice on backyard birding, places to see birds around the world, birds in books and mythology, and more. I didn’t follow it as a daily guide like intended, but read it though over a couple months.

[Bella Richardson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of interesting info....read a page a day.