Backyard Birds Links

It's a good year for bird-loving bookworms (Seattle Times)

A roundup of bird books, from "Birds of the Inland Northwest and Northern Rockies" to "For the Birds: A Month-by-Month Guide to Attracting Birds to Your Backyard."

Edible ornaments attract birds to backyard (South Bend Tribune)

If you think the sudden snow and colder temperatures caught you off-guard, just imagine what some of the birds might be going through.

Is wind power worth cost in deaths of birds, bats? (Westerly Sun)

KINGSTON — In a time when many are “going green” to protect the environment, much is being debated about a popular type of renewable energy that reduces the carbon footprint but comes with its own set of problems, according to at least one expert.

To catch a hummingbird (The Columbus Dispatch)

JoAnn LaMuth was working in her backyard garden in October when she heard the buzzing chirp of a hummingbird's wings. She ran inside her Bexley home and mixed up a batch of sugar water for her feeder, which she had put away weeks earlier in preparation for winter.

Tracking season (Norwalk Advocate)

In a corner of Linda Clarkson's backyard is a stand of feeders she calls bird island. On certain days, she sits beneath nearby trees or atop some rocks just watching the many species that stop at this oasis.