Comments on: Start Birdwatching Today: The Few Tools You Need To Be A Birdwatcher http://leesbird.com/2012/04/09/start-birdwatching-today-the-few-tools-you-need-to-be-a-birdwatcher/ Birdwatching from a Christian Perspective Fri, 24 May 2013 18:04:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lee http://leesbird.com/2012/04/09/start-birdwatching-today-the-few-tools-you-need-to-be-a-birdwatcher/#comment-79473 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:21:30 +0000 http://leesbird.com/?p=39065#comment-79473 I’ll check it out when I get back from a zoo trip. Thanks.

]]> By: John S. Armitage http://leesbird.com/2012/04/09/start-birdwatching-today-the-few-tools-you-need-to-be-a-birdwatcher/#comment-79472 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:17:14 +0000 http://leesbird.com/?p=39065#comment-79472 Hi Lee. Enjoy your Blog and was surprised to discover you had covered this particular subject when, on my own Blog on the 9th April
( http://www.birdingodyssey.blogspot.com )
I’d covered recording systems one could use. Great minds think alike it seems.
Regards,
John Armitage
Isle of Islay,Scotland

]]> By: Lee http://leesbird.com/2012/04/09/start-birdwatching-today-the-few-tools-you-need-to-be-a-birdwatcher/#comment-79380 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:12:33 +0000 http://leesbird.com/?p=39065#comment-79380 Hi Dina,
Yes, I keep a small notebook with me almost 100% of the time while at birding. I have been known to write on chewing gum wrappers, receipts and what ever else I can grab when I forget. :) Trust you got some nice photos. Your photo of that GBH with a snake at Circle B is awesome!

]]> By: dinajohnston http://leesbird.com/2012/04/09/start-birdwatching-today-the-few-tools-you-need-to-be-a-birdwatcher/#comment-79364 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:56:57 +0000 http://leesbird.com/?p=39065#comment-79364 Great advise. I need to get something to write things down with. I always think I’ll remember. Too much to see out there. It was also nice meeting you two at the lake. It’s such a small world. Hopefully, we meet up again. I’ll be heading out there again soon. Still looking for those baby swans.

]]> By: Lee http://leesbird.com/2012/04/09/start-birdwatching-today-the-few-tools-you-need-to-be-a-birdwatcher/#comment-79337 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:08:23 +0000 http://leesbird.com/?p=39065#comment-79337 Thanks for both your comments. Field Guides are hard to swallow the first few pages where they make the birds come from dinosaurs. Even evolutionist are questioning this, but they keep putting it there. You know, that would be neat to have a Christian perspective Field Guide where the Lord is given His proper honor.

]]> By: The Birding Bunch http://leesbird.com/2012/04/09/start-birdwatching-today-the-few-tools-you-need-to-be-a-birdwatcher/#comment-79320 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:38:12 +0000 http://leesbird.com/?p=39065#comment-79320 Thanks for posting this. Birding is not expensive and you can “take it with you” where ever you go. :)

Talking about field guides, I sure wish there was a guide written from a Christian point of view. I use the guides as most of the evolutionary stuff is in the intro, but oh, it would be wonderful to have a guide where the authors give praise to the One who created the birds.

Overall, I would like to see more books out there about birds and birding written by Christians. I pick up a memoir written about someone’s birding experiences or those who have rescued and kept different birds, but they also contain so much garbage, and not always limited to evolution. I found a really interesting book about a man who found a freshly hatched house sparrow out of the nest and kept it. I was about half way through and I just could not read it any longer. Maybe there are books out there and I am not aware of them. Do you know of any?
God bless you. :)

]]> By: sandraconner http://leesbird.com/2012/04/09/start-birdwatching-today-the-few-tools-you-need-to-be-a-birdwatcher/#comment-79313 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:54:24 +0000 http://leesbird.com/?p=39065#comment-79313 Lee, this article is delightful! And, yes, you have made it seem simple for people who are just getting started. I have never considered myself a “bird-watcher,” but I have always delighted in watching and listening to them. My husband, who was raised on a farm way out in the country, knew many birds by their songs as well as their physical description. And for years, he would get up at 4:00 and 5:00 a. m., without fail, to sit out on a patio area behind our house just to watch the Hummingbirds at the Rose of Sharon trees.

This article reminded me of a novel by Fannie Flagg. “A Redbird Christmas.” It is the only novel by her that I can say I truly enjoyed. It is a story of healing, restoration, and hope — on several different levels — and is centered around a community’s love for one Cardinal and a man’s discovery that birds are one of God’s most charming and life-enhancing creations. It’s simplicity in portraying things of such depth touched me so much the first time I read it that I have since read it every year for about 5 years. You may enjoy it.

And lastly, I want to thank you for this article, because the scriptures concerning God “opening our eyes” have really ministered to me today. I am going through a period where I am desperately in need of specific guidance for my path and serious encouragement from the Lord, and as I read those scriptures, my faith was elevated to believe God for some of those eye-opening experiences today. Bless you for sharing.

(By the way, did I tell you that “Hangin’ Out With God” and I are the same person? Sometimes I make a comment when logged in here and then think of something else to say to the same person when I’m logged in at the other site, but I don’t want to confuse people.)
Blessings. Sandra

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