"Reflections on a Golden-winged Warbler" was chosen by "BirdWatching" magazine as one of the Best New Bird Books of the Year (Dec. 2014). ☞ Contains a guide to birding Plum Island. ☞ ☞ Author, Doug Chickering, is one of the most popular contributors to the New England listserve "Massbird". He has been invited to publish his essays on birding in the publications Winging It, Bird Observer, and The Quail. Radio host Ray Brown has had Chickering as a guest reader six times on his program Talkin' Birds. And serious New England birders await each new Chickering Internet post with anticipation. The reasons for Chickering's popularity are twofold. In his essays, Chickering captures again and again those moments in the birding life when an experience in the field knocks your socks off; and Chickering has for nearly three decades been one of the most frequent and passionate birders and chroniclers of the Plum Island area, one of the most famous and historic birding locations in the world. Reflections on a Golden-winged Warbler is a collection of Chickering's best essays, rewritten for this volume. In reading them you will learn what the real first bird of spring is; the three ways that birders are introduced to the sport; the power of yellow on a Yellow-breasted Chat or a Prothonotary Warbler to raise our senses to a higher level; three types of close encounters with birds; and why the woodcock didn't cross the road (it has to do with beach weasels). Chickering's essays bring to life our own memories of our best moments in the field, by describing his favorite moments in his characteristic, magical prose. Cover illustration by Sarah Klockars-Clauser. Cover and book design by Eileen Klockars and published by Bard Brook Press, of Belchertown, MA. - Description &amp; images provided by Booklars of Bard Brook Press.

Reflections on a Golden-winged Warbler; The Joys and Aesthetics of Birding

Douglas E. Chickering

Bard Brook Press

Dead In Good Company is a compelling collection of essays, poems and wildlife photographs of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sweet Auburn, as it is affectionately known, is America's first garden cemetery. An amazing group of authors have come together to celebrate this unique resource - including Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz; historical novelist William Martin; former Mayor of Boston and Ambassador to the Vatican, Ray Flynn; Boston author and television icon, Hank Phillippi Ryan; Pulitzer Prize winner, Megan Marshall; mystery/true-crime author Kate Flora; mystery author Katherine Hall Page; medical thriller author Gary Goshgarian (Braver); broadcasting legend Upton Bell; world renowned bird guide author and artist David Sibley; drama critic, author and host of the Theatre World Awards, Peter Filichia; screen writer, author Chris Keane; Mass Audubon's Wayne Petersen; Talkin' Birds radio host, Ray Brown; author, naturalist Peter Alden; founder of Project Coyote, Camilla Fox; Director of the World Bird Sanctuary, Jeff Meshach; senior scientist for wildlife at the Humane Society of the United States, John Hadidian; historian Dee Morris; and sports writer and commentator, Dan Shaughnessy. Come join us on this fantastic journey.

Dead In Good Company

Wayne R. Petersen

Alan M. Dershowitz

Clare Walker Leslie

Peter Alden

John Hadidian

Kim Nagy

Christopher Keane

Gayle Lakin

Sandra Lee

Elsa Lichman

Megan Marshall

William Martin

Joe Martinez

Edith Maxwell

Anneliese Merrigan

Jeffrey Scott Meshach

Dee Morris

Susan Moses

Helen Hannon

Maryanne O'Hara

Neil A. O'Hara

Katherine Hall Page

Mary Pinard

Paul M. Roberts

Hank Phillippi Ryan

Dan Shaughnessy

David Sibley

Leslie Wheeler

Gary Goshgarian (Gary Braver)

Camilla H. Fox

Ray Flynn

Kate Flora

Peter Filichia

Nanacy Esposito

George Ellenbogen

Wendy Drexler

Linda Darman

Pierce Butler

Ray Brown

Je Anne Strott-Branca

Connie Biewald

Upton Bell

Ray, Daniel

John, Harrison

Ziggy Owl Press

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