Western Birds: Backyard Guide - Watching - Feeding - Landscaping - Nurturing - Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, New (Bird Watcher's Digest Backyard Guide)

A great resource for identifying birds that come to a backyard feeder, even when one knows little about birds except that some like suet and others the regular dry feed. This book helped me to identify the birds now visiting my back yard. It's fun to know something about those visitors and how each differs (even if slightly) from the others, especially the different jays that I've spotted and the woodpeckers, too. Some are tiny, others are downright gigantic compared with the smallest visitors who are regularly chased away by the big behemoths, some too big to really use the feeders, which makes them frustrated until they figure out how to swoop and grab.

This book is OK for a start, but the birds I am seeing at my house are NOT in this book. Keeping the book anyway, it is just not as useful as I was hoping it would be.

Not only do you get a good description of each bird but you also get information on how habitat so you can attract different species and whether or not they will use a bird house. The book is limited to the 55 most common birds so a bird that isn't quite as common, such as a yellow headed blackbird, might not be included.

Nicely written, information regarding nesting and places to see is great. Not all common western birds are in the book, though. Strange.Gave away. Not worth keeping.

Have only seen 1 or 2 species in this book, but at least a dozen I have seen, but are not it this book.

Well written, easy to use index bright colorful photos

Great book for bird lovers. I bought this for my husband and it is a great help in identifying the birds in our part of the country.

It was nice