Our Nature Library

The new 4th Edition (released Nov 2002) So we bought this one, too...		We have the 2nd and 3rd Editions, too...  one in each of our vehicles so we are never without a field guide!
There is a new version out -- it looks much like the new version of the Eastern Region to the right	I have the older version (with the dark green cover... ) I have included a picture beside it of what the latest version looks like	Our Sibley's is getting well used!!! This is a great book (but a little big to carry out hiking)
This is a very good book, for amateurs and expert birders alike... Lots of great info between the covers....	Reference Atlas to the Birds of North America - an excellent reference book	A very good reference book featuring over 1,000 photographs of birds known to visit or breed in Canada -- our newest addition to our "Nature Library"!!
A nice "regional" reference (also has a "best sites " listed as to where to find specific birds!!)	A comprehensive chronicle of bird records and sightings in Saskatchewan, this is a great Saskatchewan Birding reference.	A well thought out book of the bird records of the Saskatoon Area. Lots of information and records on the accumulated observations of over 200 observers during a period of 45 years in the Saskatoon (Sask) area...
A book with some beautiful photos put together by John Wanderer	A book with more  beautiful photos put together by John Wanderer	A book to help us in Waterfowl Identifcation
A nice "regional" reference (also has a "best sites " listed as to where to find specific birds!!)		A nice book showing the most common birds that can fe found in the Canadian Rockies
A very beautiful book to own!		A beautiful book with a lot of great information and pictures
With the purchase of this book, we are hoping for all the help we can get  when trying to positively I.D. the many LBJ's (Little Brown Jobbies)	We are hoping this guide will help us when trying to I.D. the many Warblers..	We are hoping this guide will help us when trying to I.D. the many Warblers...
Hopefully this one will help us when trying to identify the raptors...	Encyclopedia of North American Birds (Michael Vanner)	A beautiful book about  34 species of diurnal raptors -  the hawks, kites, falcons, eagles, & vultures
One of the newest additions to our Nature Library...	...complimented by the Purple Martin Dawn Song CD	... we are hoping to attract Purple Martins by playing this CD during the Purple Migration season.  We have an outdoor speaker set up near the Purple Martin Gourds, keeping the CD player indoors (to protect it against the weather AND for ease of turning the CD player on at 4:00 AM without having to go outside!!)
This book gives some great ideas to help make the yard more bird-friendly... and also gives ideas on what each bird eats, what size of family they raise, incubation, etc.
This guide to Insects & Spiders is our teenage son's...	This guide to Butterflies is our teenage son's...	This guide to Butterflies is our teenage son's...
One of my newest additions to my library, to assist and/or guide me in taking better Nature photos!	This book provides invaluable information about the geology, plants, animals, history, and recreation available in the Canadian Rockies from Waterton Park in the south to the Yukon Territory.	The ecosystems within Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado-from natural meadows to alpine plant communities-support a wide variety of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, mammals, and plants. This book describes and illustrates in full color dozens of these plants and animal species. It also explores the park's geological history, land-use issues, native people, and past explorers-at once a traveler's guide, field guide, and natural history of one of America's most extraordinary national parks.

We also have several other books and guides in addition to the ones shown above, but I thought I would show some of the ones I had pictures of to give you some idea of what some of the field guides and books look like...  Some you may recognize as being the same ones you carry in your own backpack or vehicle.

Most of our Birding and other Critter field guides & books are:

     - Atlas of Saskatchewan Birds (Alan R. Smith) 
      - A Guide to Nature Viewing Sites in & around Saskatoon (Peter Jonker & Bernie Gollop)
        -  Backyard Birds - Identification Guide (Bird Watcher's Digest)
      - Birds  (Robert Bateman)
      - Birds of Alberta (Chris Fisher & John Acorn)
      - Birds of Canada (Dr. Fred J.  Alsop III)
      - Birds of the Canadian Rockies (George W Scotter, Tom J Ulrich & Edgar T Jones)
        -  Birds of Saskatoon (2002)
        -  Butterflies of Canada, The (Ross A Layberry, Peter W. Hall, and J. Donald Lafontaine)
        -  Central Rockies Wildflowers  (Mike Potter)
        -  Edible & Medicinal Plants of the Rockies (Linda Kershaw)
        - Edible & Medicinal Plants of the West (Gregory L Tilford)
       - Encyclopedia of North American Birds (Michael Vanner)
       -  Enjoying Bluebirds More - The Bluebird Landlord's Handbook  (Julie Zickefoose)
       -  Enjoying Hummingbirds More  (Nancy Newfield)
      -  Field Guide To Warblers (Don & Lillian Stokes)
      -  Field Guide To Birds - Eastern Region (Don & Lillian Stokes)
      -  Field Guide To Birds - Western Region (Don & Lillian Stokes)
     - Golden Guide: Birds of North America
       -  Handbook of the Canadian Rockies (Ben Gadd)
     - Hand-feeding Backyard Birds: A step-by-step guide (Hugh Wiberg)
     -  Kaufman's Butterflies of North American (Jim P Brock & Kenn Kaufman)
     - Mammals of North America  (Adrian Forsyth)
     - More Birds (John Wanderer)
     - Mountain Bluebird Trail Monitoring Guide (Myrna Pearman)
     - National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Western Region &
       Eastern Region *two separate books
     - National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America 4th Edition
       (We carry the older versions... 2nd Edition and 3rd Edition in our vehicles now, so we always
        have at least one book wherever we go!!)
     - National Geographic Reference Atlas to the Birds of North America (Mel Baughman, Author)
     - Nature Photography Field Guide (John Shaw)
     - Peterson Field Guide: Western Birds' Nests
     - Peterson Field Guide: Western Birds & Eastern Region *two separate books
     - Peterson Field Guide: Warblers
     - Peterson Field Guide: Hawks
     - Peterson Field Guide: Mammals
     - Peterson Field Guide: Reptiles & Amphibians Eastern/Central & Western  *two separate books
     - Plants of Waterton-Glacier National Park (Shaw, R.J. & On, D.)
     - Purple Martin Book - The Complete Guide To Attracting and Houseing Purple Martins
         (Donald & Lillian Stokes & Justin L Brown)
     - Raptors (Noel & Helen Snyder)
     - Rocky Mountain A Visitor's Companion (George Wuerthner)
     - Saskatchewan Birds (Alan R Smith)
     - Sibley's Birding Basics (David Allen Sibley)
     - Sibley Guide to Birds (David Allen Sibley)
     - Some Birds of British Columbia (John Wanderer)
     - Songbirds Celebrating Nature's Voices (Ronald Orenstein)
     - Sparrows of the United States and Canada The Photographic Guide (David Beadle & James Rising)
     - The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide (Jan Mahnken)
     - The Bird Watcher's Companion (Barry Kent MacKay)
     - Waterfowl Identification: The LeMaster Method (Richard LeMaster)
     - Wild Birds across The Prairies (Wayne Lynch)
     - Wildflowers of Alberta (Kathleen Wilkinson) 

We have a number of books added to our collection but I have not had time to add them to the above list.

Peterson Field Guides: "Birding by Ear Eastern & Central"	Peterson Field Guides: "Birding by Ear Western"	James John Audubon: "Songbirds of America"
Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs "Eastern Region"	Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs "Western Region"	A nice CD filled with over 62 minutes of birds singing on an early Spring morning in Saskatchewan (no music has been added...)
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Lang Elliott: "Know Your Bird Sounds Vol 2: Birds of the Countryside"		Peter Jonker: "A Perfect Morning Along the South Saskatchewan River"

Check out our Lifelist ... to see a list of all the birds Larry and I have seen so far (though not necessarily both of us have seen all these birds... yet!!)  The list changes each time we're lucky enough to add a new bird (not often enough, for us, but I am discovering it requires patience... a lot of patience!!)

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