Warblers & Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding
by Sneed B. Collard III
From Mountaineers Books:
From the killer bee-infested border region of southeast Arizona to the sultry islands of the Galapagos, Warblers & Woodpeckers recounts the quest of a father and his thirteen-year-old son to see as many birds as possible in a single year. With a measured blend of humor, natural history, and adventure, this tale takes readers to great birding hotspots of America and beyond, both to experience their incredible avian wealth and to experience the focused, often eccentric, world of ornithological travel. Along the way, readers share the ups and downs of the relationship between a father and his teenage son.
Writer Sneed Collard and his son Braden set out to establish their own personal Big Year bird species count record. In Warblers & Woodpeckers, Sneed shares the excitement, challenges, perils, and insights that come with crisscrossing the country in search of some of Earth’s most remarkable creatures. It’s a father-and-son tale, in which the adventure is in the journey and the surprising discoveries and encounters with our wondrous feathered friends. Sneed brings a fast-paced yet generous voice to the attempt, and readers of all stripes will appreciate the way backyard birders can create their own Big Year.
I love big year books, I can’t deny it. And if you combine a year of birding, a little humor, and a father-son story? Well, you have me. I haven’t read much of it so far – just two chapters – but it appears that it’s going to keep me.
Warblers & Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding
by Sneed B. Collard III
Hardcover; 256 pages
Mountaineers Books; August 17, 2018
ISBN: 9781680511369
$24.95
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Posted by Grant McCreary on October 14th, 2018.
So glad you’re liking it, Grant! I also hope the hurricane didn’t wipe out the fall birding season. Here in Montana, Braden and I spotted Surf Scoters and White-throated Sparrows, both rare for here. Keep up the great blogs and thank you!
Sneed
Thanks, Sneed! Wish I had something good to report from here, but I just haven’t had much time to do anything lately