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Birding can become an addiction. It starts when you hang a bird feeder in the backyard. Then you buy a bird book to identify the birds you see. Then, before you know it, you're keeping a life list and traveling the region, the country, perhaps even the world to catch glimpses of rare birds. Marjorie Adams's birding passion progressed through all these stages and continues today in her tenth decade. In this engaging and informative book, she looks back at her evolution into a full-fledged birder and the concurrent growth of the sport of birding, to which she contributed significantly as a founding member of the American Birding Association, a newspaper columnist on birding, and a teacher and producer of educational wildlife films with her husband and lifelong birding partner, "Red" Adams.
As one who was there from the beginning, Marjorie Adams is uniquely qualified to recount the astonishing rise of birding to a major pastime and recreational industry. She describes the founding of the American Birding Association and profiles its founder, James A. Tucker. She vividly recalls many of her and Red's birding adventures, from southern Canada to Mexico, as well as their encounters with a host of highly regarded birders, including Roger Tory Peterson, Pete Dunne, Victor Emanuel, Charles Hartshorne, and Roy Bedichek. She also explains how her and Red's love for birds led them to become conservation activists and how they produced an award-winning film on the endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler. Offering an important chapter in the story of birding in Texas and the United States, this book establishes Marjorie and Red Adams's rightful place among the leading Texas naturalists of recent decades.
Contents
Foreword by Greg Lasley and Chuck Sexton
Acknowledgments
Prologue: How It Began
My First Bird World Column: Why Watch Birds?
How to Play the Birds
Birding-A Dangerous Sport?
Snakes
Getting Close to Nature
The Throne
Bedi the Bird Man
Scoter Scope-out
Canoe in the Wilderness
He Gave Us Freedom
Top-of-the-World Bird
Rarest Gives Way to Most Elusive
The Texas Bird Lady
Hunting-A Battle Cry?
Crisis in Gooseland
The Last One?
Wish-Book Bird
Crossed-up Nomads Arrive
Problems with a Tin Ear
Born to Sing
A Perilous Job?
Another First for Texas
Those Jeweled Jets
Conversation(?) with a Robin
Dining on the Wind
Outguessing the Weather
Turkey Wild, Turkey Tame
Playful Ravens?
Battle of a Lifetime
How Bird People Learn to Love
Get Off My Land!
The Clock Keeps Ticking
Epilogue: It's a Long Way from There to Here
