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Tips for beginning birders/Carolina Wren's bunking together



I agree with Joshua that knowing the frequency of what birds are in a given
area at a given time of the year is very useful in
learning to bird. One tool that I have found very helpful in doing this is
my Thayer's Guide to North America CD-ROM. For most birds it has summer and
winter average counts in six different categories ranging from < 1 to > 100.
The other thing I use it for is learning bird calls. I have found the
pictures to be minimal and generally use another field guide for that.
Although, pricey, the new version costs around $70.00 dollars, once you buy
a copy you get any upgraded version that comes out at half price. Since
neither my husband or I have family in the area and we have to travel to see
them, I generally have to check after coming back from vacations to verify
things. Info about it can be found at www.thayerbirding.com.

Several years back I had one of those hanging plants with flowers that look
like red caterpillars.  I had a pair of wrens that dug a cavity in the plant
and used to roost there at night. Occasionally when watering plants in the
evening, I would forget about the wrens and water that plant,  they would
then fly out and hit me in the face.

Linda Sharp
Greenville, SC
(864)  268-9409
nljsharp@worldnet.att.net