My new field guide to the Birds of North America

This is a good book Tastey. If its the one I'm thinking of it used to come with a recording of bird calls. Does this one have a recording? There is a website that is pretty neat if you are looking for different bird calls. The address is......

http://www.whatbird.com/

Just type in the bird's name in the search box at the top and a new window opens up about the bird with a recording of the song.

we had a bird spotting book for christmas. i've lived here for years and only started noticing the birds in recent years. we have buzzards seagulls and this year we had a woodpecker....

great buy Tracy. i have my pocket book guide to birds handy with me at all times lol

Good book. And I like the comments you've put underneath the photo about learning new words, and then finding you seem to hear and use those words more often. LOL

Gilli- This book didn't come with the bird calls. I think that I saw the sight that you mentioned though. Thanks for the address :)

See Sandra, you read your birding book and therefore you're more aware of your surroundings and now you see more :) Amazing what a little reading can do :)

What about now Irish, is your bird guide on you now?!? lol JK ;~)

Yes, TT lol :) Perhaps this is how the word 'enlightened' came about, or the phrase 'now I see the light', or perhaps the picture of a lightbulb above one's head when they get a 'bright' idea in cartoons or movies.
In the very informative words of Schoolhouse Rock 'knowlegde is power!' Does anyone on the other side of the pond and/or elsewhere (besides people from the US) know of this series of 3 minute educational cartoons? I grew up watching these. They were slipped in between commercials and cartoons like Bugs Bunny reruns and Scooby-Doo on Saturday mornings.
Here's a link to them:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=schoolhouse+rock&search_type=&aq=0&oq=schoolhouse

Never heard of those Tastey.

For those of us who grow up with them, it's a very notalgic feeling we get when we hear or see them. For those who know nothing about them, they probably seem outdated and corny.

definately corny...but we'd catch our selves singing them under our breath..."conjunction junction what's your function"

..."hookin' up words and phrases and clauses." Yes, Kmccue07, you know what I'm talking about :)