What a nice video topic! Even though some of the bird names have changed over the years, that edition of the little guidebook you showed at 4:05 is still the best one out there for using outdoors. Mine has survived since 1979, enduring canoe trips (with dunking and lots of rain), winter camping for days at a time, saltwater beach camping and canoeing, and hiking from Mexico to Canada over many months. The newer editions and other guidebooks fall apart or pages stick together the first time they get wet. Every time I've seen a new bird for the first time, I've noted the place and date in that little guidebook. Enjoy your birds in real life and in your reading!
Well now I want to go to estate sales! 😊 the coffee table books are just beautiful. Loved your five book Friday selections too. Have a great weekend💕🕊🦜🦉
Yes, A Redbird Christmas is my favorite fiction book and I've never seen that edition!! I need to find one of those for my collection!! Awesome video!!
I love birds too!! And since last year I started bird watching. I just finished reading The Crows of Pearblossom on the Internet Archive thanks to your recommendation, it was wonderful! loved the humour 😁 I recommend Stephen Moss books on birds 😉 Thanks for another wonderful 5 Book Friday! ❤
Oh, wow! I had the Crows of Pearblossom. I didn't know it the other day. Didn't remember the cover at all, but Mrs. Crow? I REMEMBER that one. I have quite a few books with a bird on the cover or in the title. I even have Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird! LOL And you reminded me of a Dustbowl book I started a long time ago. I was going to call it When the Bluebird Sings. Now I need to go check that out!
Birding is the hobby I love to do besides reading. I belong to a birding club in my area. There's just something about being out in nature listening to bird songs that is so relaxing and peaceful to me.
Mitzi, I have a copy of The Shoe Bird by Eudora Welty. It’s a cute story and is the only children’s book she ever wrote. At estate sales, keep your eye out for Menaboni’s Birds by Athos and Sara Menaboni. He was a mid 20th century bird watcher and artist living and working in Atlanta. Their book is beautiful. Also, in the 60’s, some of his paintings were reproduced on a set of plates by Syracuse China. They were sold in sets of 4 as a charity fundraiser. In your area you might find them at antique malls, estate sales or consignment shops.
Such a fun 5 book Friday 🦜🦉🐤! I read a middle grade book called Blue Birds by Caroline Star Rose that I enjoyed, and I have had Thornbirds on my tbr for quite sometime!
Those are lovely books! Im adding some to my tbr wish list. Matt Sewell is an author you will like who has written and illustrated many beautiful bird books. I have his book Penguins Other Sea Birds. I never knew there were do many different kinds of penguins!
To kill a Mockingbird is an all time fav of mine! That edition is gorgeous ❤❤ If you enjoy Kristin Hannah you would probably enjoy the Women by her its about the Vietnam War it was a great page turner!
Nightingale was everything you said and MORE! I enjoyed it so much even with the sadness. Just a GREAT book! I will re-read I KNOW! I never tire of WW2 bks. either. A RED BIRD CHRISTMAS is another fave of mine. I bought it Christmas time many yrs. ago. Try to read it every Christmas. WONDERFUL!! I had read To Kill A Mockingbird long time ago. Like you, (funny) wanted a nice copy of my own and bought one! Bought the DVD also. This was fun, thanks!
I had to do To kill a mockingbird for school here in Malaysia and loved it! Also watched the film with Gregory Peck, in this part of the world before our exams, they'd show the films on the books we had to study on national tv. Really good memories 😊. Love the bird books 👍.
You might like The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan. She wrote and illustrated this book about the birds in her backyard in California. Lovely pictures in it.
For a long time The Nightingale was my favorite book. I'm so glad you read it. After watching this video I think it would be fun to re-read To Kill a Mockingbird and A Redbird Christmas.
My neighbor absolutely loves The Nightingale and I’ve been afraid to pick it up because I’m afraid it will make me too sad 😭 but I’ve heard good things 💗
Hi Mitzi! I have The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady and a Peterson First Guides of birds, which was published in 1986. It's been a while since I read To Kill a Mockingbird. 🙂
Love your 5 book Friday's, I'm currently reading the 2nd book in the Maisie Dobbs series, Birds of a feather ❤. This one is set in spring 1930. Author is Jacqueline Winspear.
I have not read To Kill a Mockingbird since I was a young adult. I really need to re-read it! I am one of those who is a little burnt out on WW2 fiction, but I will still read it. Just sparingly!
