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The Bluebird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting Bluebirds (A Stokes Backyard Nature Book)

	Our Price: $11.19 List Price: $13.99 Your Save: $ 2.80 ( 20% ) Sales Rank: #221812 (lower is better) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company Written By: Donald W. Stokes, Lillian Q. Stokes Avg. Customer Rating:
Brand: Stokes EAN: 9780316817455 ISBN: 0316817457 Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
The Bluebird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting Bluebirds (A Stokes Backyard Nature Book) Description This guide to understanding one of America's best-loved birds covers buying or building bulebird nest boxes, establishing bluebird trails, landscaping for bluebirds, and keeping predators and competitors away. 84 color photos.
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The Bluebird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting Bluebirds (A Stokes Backyard Nature Book) customer reviews: A good start This is a good book for those who are interested in learning more about bluebirds and perhaps getting started with their own trail. It is mostly focused on the eastern bluebird but also discusses the mountain and western bluebirds, with plenty of photos. It also shows how to distinguish different types of nests so you can tell whether a house wren or house sparrow has taken over your bluebird box. GOOD USEFUL STUFF HERE FOLKS! ONE OF THE BEST STARTER BOOKS I'VE READ! This is certainly one you will want to add to your collection. Having been a birder for well over fifty years now, and a collector of books on the subject, I found this one to be well worth the cost. As pointed out by another reviewer here, some of the information in this book is quite basic. But that is okay! Everyone has to start somewhere and this is one of the best books I know to get that start. This is not to say that an "expert" will not be able to get anyting out of this work...that is silly. But, like any work on the subject of birds, this one needs to be supplemented by other books on the subject and field guides. The photographs in this work are wonderful, some of the best I have seen and the text is clear and concise, which is sort of a trade mark for this writing team. There is a great amount of useful information in this relatively small volume, and with it, and a couple of the other recommended works here, you should be able to become quite an authority on the subject. This particular bird is a favorite of mine and I find any work that promotes it's well being a good thing. Recommend this one highly. The Bluebird Bok This book has great pictures and answered all of my questions re bluebirds. I love the pictures of the different nest types...it has enabled me to know what kind of bird is nesting in the bluebird box. Very helpful. feeling blue The Stokes bird books major in the sheer delight of discovering the bird in question. The 1991 STOKES BLUEBIRD BOOK carries this tradition forward without missing a step. The book's three sections explore 'The Birds', 'Attracting Bluebirds', an 'Bluebird Behavior'. The first section introduces this captivating bird by way of poetry and observations made about it, mostly when the species was more plentiful than it is today. The Stokes then present the 'Eastern', 'Mountain', and 'Western Bluebird' varieties. The second section details what we've learned about compensating for the habit destruction that has made Bluebird numbers drop precipitously in recent times. I bought my copy after undertaking the Quijote's quest of adding a bluebird house to my Indiana front yard. It was immediately fitted out by a male house wren whose spouse chose other digs. A final section, comprising nearly half the book's pages, follows these birds through their life stages. Through 96 pages, the authors' prose cannot veil their admiration for these birds and their sheer delight in sympathetic proximity to them. It all adds up to a winner. A Must for Bluebird Lovers Four bluebird houses and several bluebird feeders stand on our property, and I already own four bluebird books. Yet this bluebird book by Donald and Lillian Stokes looked like something I'd want to add to the collection. After buying and reading this classic bluebird "bible", I've moved this volume to the head of the class. The reader is treated to a myriad of glorious bluebird photographs and insightful information about eastern, western, and mountain bluebirds. Just about everything one would want to know about the bluebird lifestyle, diet, and interactions is in this book. I like that the authors include a suggested list of bluebird favorable plants, bluebird feeding habits, and even a plan for a simple bluebird house made with a single 1" x 6" plank of wood. Don't be put off by the copyright date of this book. The information within is just as pertinent now as it was the day the book was published. The magnificent bluebird photographs alone are worth the price of admission. I highly recommend this wonderful book.
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