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The Joy of Bird Feeding: A Book Review by a Birder who Loves Her Feeder Birds

10,000 Birds

He brings to this book an academic background in biology and horticulture and, more importantly, decades of experience developing strategies for the best backyard bird feeding practices. Fish and Wildlife Service states that almost 59.1 Jim Carpenter is the founder of Wild Birds Unlimited, the popular bird feeder and seed franchise.

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Best Bird of the Year 2014

10,000 Birds

The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. I’d never heard raccoons make that particular weird noise before, but that was my best guess as to what it was. I was a bit sad, too, that we had annoyed the owl enough that it felt it had to strafe us … my normal MO is to avoid stressing out wildlife.

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