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JANUARY 9, 2009
Books for the birds

One of my favorite Christmas presents this year was a new bird feeder. I moved in November and left all my bird feeders hanging at my old house in the hopes that whoever moved in would keep filling them and feeding the birds that had become accustomed to stopping by for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In fact, that's how I got interested in 'birdwatching' (as in watching them from my couch) in the first place, the bird feeders were left for us by the old residents.

Soon after acquiring my feeders at the old house I received Birds of Connecticut: Field Guide, by Stan Tekiela, and started to really pay attention to what kinds of birds we had visiting our feeders. I saw cardinals, blue jays, mourning doves, black capped chickadees, nuthatches, tufted titmice, robins, and woodpeckers, just to name a few. I never would have thought I would have enjoyed watching the birds as much as I do!

I guess the reason I'm sitting here thinking about birds and my new feeder is because this week at Story Time I read the kids bird books, and we made our own feeders. There are a ton of great bird picture books for kids, and this week I read:

         

The Pigeon series by Mo Willems is hilarious, and the kids can really interact with the story. While reading Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, each time the pigeon asked to drive, the kids told him a stern 'NO!'

How to Heal a Broken Wing, by Bob Graham is a brand new book with a sweet and hopeful message.

Hurry Hurry, by Eve Bunting shows a chicken rounding up all the animals in the barnyard to watch a new chick hatch.

Just yesterday we got another bird book in for children, that I just have to mention. Its called Pale Male, Citizen Hawk of New York City, by Janet Schulman. The description from Barnes and Noble is as follows, "Pale Male and his mate built their nest near the top of one of Fifth Avenue’s swankiest apartment buildings. Nine years and 23 chicks later, Pale Male’s fame had grown so large that a CBS newsman named him Father of the Year! But Pale Male was less beloved by the residents of the building, and in 2004 the owners suddenly removed the nest–setting off an international outcry on behalf of the birds." 

Now these are just a few of our many children's books on birds, we also have a HUGE selection of bird books and field guides for adults, including the Birds of Connecticut Guide that I use at home.

As I mentioned, at Story Time this week I had the kids make their own bird feeders, fruit loops on yarn to hang from trees, (can't get too complicated here - they're only 2 and 3 years old). But in my search for easy to make bird feeders I found a few different interesting ideas. Click on the link below to try some at home.

http://familycrafts.about.com/od/birdfeeders/Bird_Feeder_Projects.htm

 

 

 


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Mercedes said, on Jan. 9 at 1:36PM
I'm sorry we missed Story Time this week! We love watching birds and do a lot of couch watching too since our feeder is right in front of our picture window. We recently added a suet block and have enjoyed the addition of woodpeckers to our feeding area. And just yesterday, I watched 12 turkeys wander through my neighbors front yard, peck at the seed on the ground from one of their many feeders and then meander off. Talk about bird feeding!

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