Books and Birding......oh my

I was unaware of just how many books I read until I started keeping track of them in My Reading Room ~ Twenty Ten. I think I will suspend this endeavor as soon the only thing in my sidebar will be the list of books I read. I will continue to keep it, however not here. I will probably post something of it at the end of the year.

How many books do you think you read in a year?

I’m not sure if this is pitiful or admirable, though I do find time for my gardening and week-end jaunts into the other world in which I live. I suppose if one can never have too many books, one can never read too many books. So there you have it.

The Spousal Unit and I have

become interested in bird watching.

Keith has already seen a Bald Eagle (in-flight),

and Snowy Plovers (endangered).

  

We both shared a sighting of Sanderlings (in-surf) as we were walking along the shore. We spotted these funny little creatures eating small organisms in the sand, just at the waterline. They were so amusing. The Sanderlings would run to the waterline, peck for a meal, then as if afraid of the cold water, race en masse, back to the shore just as the wave came back to the sand! What a hoot.

For his Birthday, I gave Keith a book about Oregon Birds, so of course, we have been engrossed in it ever since (does this count as a book for my list?).

Once we get a new camera, I am certain I will be posting photographs of some of our bird sightings. The photograph of the Sanderlings is courtesy of William Vann of EduPic Graphical Resources. The Bald Eagle and Snowy Plover photographers are unknown to this writer.
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