Stokes Birdfeeder Book : The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Understanding Your Feeder Birds
This unique guide helps readers learn how to attract more birds, become experts at identifying birds, and better understand bird behavior. The authors write a regular column that appears in Bird Watcher's Digest and Living Bird.
Stokes Birdfeeder Book : The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Understanding Your Feeder Birds Accessories
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The Complete Birdhouse Book: The Easy Guide to Attracting Nesting Birds
The Backyard Bird Feeder's Bible: The A-to-Z Guide To Feeders, Seed Mixes, Projects, And Treats (Rodale Organic Gardening Book)
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Stokes Birdfeeder Book : The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Understanding Your Feeder Birds Reviews
Won't know until spring whether the tips to attract the birds works or not. Good book, has a lot of useful information and tips on how to attact birds to your home feeders. All-in-all a helpful book. Could be a bit more expansive, but pictures are great.
It's still a good book as far as it goes; I simply don't think that it's much of a guide to attracting the specific birds you have reason to believe are in your area, but goes with a considerably more general approach. I had hoped for a book that would tell me what has a good chance of drawing specific birds, but except for hummingbirds, it really doesn't go into detail about the topic. This book is subtitled "The complete guide to attracting, identifying, and understanding your feeder birds." While it is good at the "indentifying" and "understanding" parts, it leaves something to be desired in the "attracting" department.
You just can't go wrong with this one. For the home user, it really gives you a good amount of information with clear pictures.
Was looking for more details about plantlife, positioning of shrubs, feeders, bird baths, landscaping etc, but book consisted more of bios on birds with a little bird-feeding info. at the beginning of the book. Disappointing. Save your money and go elsewhere. I was expecting an Audubon-style reference book, but got a simpler, very brief, nothing new, thin, magazine-sized tickler. I've heard good things about Stokes, but this book wasn't a winner. :-(
This guide is for the utmost, novice and does not contain extremely detailed information on identifying and feeding birds. It also contained helpful information as to what common birds favor what types of feeders and provided information on some bird behavior and how to buy binoculars. It contains only the most common birds, the Tufted Titmouse, Cardinals, Black-capped and Carolina Chickadees, etc. It does not identify many species, but did help me recognize most of the birds coming to my newly purchased feeders. The maps of where the birds are found are not very detailed. . The information is very generalized and only covers common backyard birds.
As a complete novice to birding and gardening, I found this book a helpful starting point. Nevertheless, it is a helpful introduction only for someone like me who knew next to nothing when I purchased it. They also purposely leave out any information on birds some may find undesirable, like Starlings and House Sparrows, which can be aggressive and keep small songbirds away.
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