Hi Richard:


For a home base use I have The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds By John Terres. My only knock is that it covers all of NA & I'm pretty much just in the north east. Field use is between the Stokes Field Guide To Birds, Eastern Region. Great pictures & background information & the Peterson Field Guide. I got lucky inherited the complete listings of Peterson's Field Guides.





Hi Bill:


The "southern tip of the Quabbin Reservoir, near Belchertown" way down there in the deep south of Massachusetts, AAAA. Just a bit to far for this northerner to travel at this time of the year, or anytime pretty much for that matter. I have found Bill that as I age I have less interest in "local" travel. However when my wife wants to travel home to the Philippines and nearby countries of Taiwan, China, Japan, Indonesia & she has friends that live in Australia I can't get packed fast enough. Oh well just a duffers prerogative I guess.





Godspeed


Wayne