Spring is here - checkout these great Garden Books

Spring has sprung and it's time to pull out those cultivators and start beautifying your backyard.

There are a number of great books on the market that can minimize the work needed to create or reopen your water garden, start a vegetable garden or attract beautiful birds to your backyard. Study up and save time and money this year.

• Creating Your Water Garden Book
• Master Book of the Water Garden
• Animal Planet Set Up and Care of Garden Ponds Book
• Water Gardening Basics
• Water Gardening in Containers
• Hummingbirds of N.A. Bird Book - my favorite!
  Besides being objects of wonder, hummingbirds, says Sheri L. Williamson in the Peterson Field Guide: Hummingbirds of North America, are unique to the New World, range in size from the smallest warm-blooded animal (Cuba's Bee Hummingbird) to outsizing songbirds (South America's Giant Hummingbird), can fly backwards and side to side, and still defy category among ornithological types. The habits, habitats, migratory patterns, physical traits, diet, mating practices, where to find them in short, all the information that a good wildlife guide offers are the stuff of Williamson's book. Clear, engaging prose and 180 full color photographs make this a natural for birdwatchers everywhere.
  
  The book covers over 30 species of hummingbirds that regularly occur in the United States or have the potential for occurence as vagrants from Mexico. It is entirely a photographic guide which has both advantages and disadvantages from paintings or illustrations.
  

Wild Bird Lover Books for Gifts

Our backyard birds seem to capture our attention significantly more than any other type of wildlife, which may explain why 60 million Americans are feeding and watching birds. Below are a few selections that may interest you or possibly be a good gift for the wild bird lover / watcher on your list this Christmas season.


Quick & Easy Attracting & Feeding Wild Birds

This is the perfect book for anyone interested in having wild birds in the backyard, offering tips on types of foliage and seeds that attract birds, and descriptions of 19 common varieties of birds. 64 pages / softcover

Stokes Field Guide to Birds- Eastern Region

The best, easiest-to-use, and most comprehensive field guide available. Great for beginning to advanced birders. Fast-access color tab index makes it easy to look up a bird. Inludes more than 900 beautiful color photos.

Stokes Beginners Guide to Birds: Eastern Region

Whether you want to identify the birds that come to your backyard feeder or you've decided to take up bird-watching as a hobby, you'll find everything you need in this easy-to-use guide.

Stokes Bluebird Book

Bluebirds, an uncommon sight in recent years, are now coming back, thanks to conservation efforts throughout North America. And with the Stokes Bluebird Book, you can bring these charming and beloved birds into your own yard.

Stokes Hummingbird Book

Hummingbirds are amazing creatures found throughout North America. This beautiful guide will make it easy for you to attract these tiny jewels to your yard, identify them, and understand their fascinating and varied behavior.

Stokes Bird Feeder Book

An Easy Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Understanding Your Feeder Birds. Now you can start to enjoy the birds at your feeder more than you ever have before. We have written this book to help you in three important ways!

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