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Do you know someone who's ready to start birdwatching, but is uncertain how to go about it? Burt Guttman, Professor Emeritus of The Evergreen State College, has written a book that can help. In Finding Your Wings, A Workbook for Beginning Bird Watchers, Burt explains: Find a good place. Get a pair of binoculars. Buy a field guide and other books, and start to read. Begin a notebook. Best of all, go out and enjoy yourself! You can learn more in Finding Your Wings.
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Do you know someone who’s ready to start birdwatching, but is uncertain how to go about it? Burt Guttman, Professor Emeritus of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington has written a book that can help. In Finding Your Wings, A Workbook for Beginning Bird Watchers, Burt explains step by step.
You find a comfortable place...
Secondly, get a good pair of binoculars, about the best pair of binoculars you can afford...
Get a field guide...
Buy a few other books…
Buy a good notebook...
Simply get in the habit of making sketches in your notebook...
The important thing about birding, of course…
So, let’s see: Find a good place. Get a pair of binoculars. Buy a field guide and other books, and start to read. Begin a notebook. Oh, and enjoy yourself! Learn more about Burt’s book at BirdNote.org.
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=694059
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Medley provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Recorded by G.F. Budney.
Producer: John Kessler
Executive Producer: Chris Peterson
© 2008 Tune In to Nature.org
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Ellen Blackstone
Writer