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The wind masters : the lives of North American birds of prey / by Dunne, Pete,1951-(CARDINAL)330640;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-263).Even people with little interest in birds will stop in their tracks at the sight of a hawk soaring overhead or a falcon perched on a window ledge. Birds of prey have an aura few other creatures have. In the acclaimed Hawks in Flight, Pete Dunne showed what birds of prey look like. In The Wind Masters, he shows what it is like to be a bird of prey. He takes us inside the lives and minds of all thirty-four species of day-flying raptors found in North America - hawks, falcons, eagles, vultures, the osprey, and the harrier - and shows us how each bird sees the world, hunts its prey, finds and courts its mate, rears its young, grows up, grows old, and dies. Vividly written, and beautifully illustrated by David Sibley, The Wind Masters is a brilliant work of narrative natural history in the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's The Wind Birds and Barry Lopez's Of Wolves and Men.
Subjects: Birds of prey;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Hawks and owls of eastern North America / by Earley, Chris,1968-author.(CARDINAL)316477;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-131) and index.Introduces over thirty birds of prey that make their homes in eastern North America, covering the differences between males and females, plumages, and distinctive markings, and indicating their ranges on maps.
Subjects: Hawks; Owls; Hawks; Owls; Hawks; Owls;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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South Carolina country roads : of train depots, filling stations and other vanishing charms / by Poland, Thomas M.,1949-author.(CARDINAL)773147;
Wreckage along the back roads -- Cedars and cemeteries -- A drive through the backcountry -- An open-air cinema shines on -- Down a graveled road, part I -- Down a graveled road, part II -- A country store carries on -- The upcountry, the beautiful -- A fondness for old gas pumps -- Wall dogs' ghost signs -- A train rolls through it -- Salters: a whistle-stop kind of place -- The old hand pump -- Willington: a history village -- Down in Camellia land, part I -- Down in Camellia land, part II -- The mortgage lifter -- That tantalizing smoke -- From a back road to backwaters -- Searching for promised land -- Follow the red-shouldered hawk -- Vanishing tenant homes -- Sojourn into Spanish moss country and beyond -- Like going to Africa -- Down by the Catawba River.Venture off the beaten path to forgotten roads, where a hidden South Carolina exists. Time-travel and dead-end at a ferry that leads to wild islands. Cross a rusting steel truss bridge into a scene from the 1930s. Behold an old gristmill and imagine its creaking, clashing gears grinding corn. See an old gas pump wreathed in honeysuckle. Drive through a ghost town and wonder why it died. When's the last time you saw a country store's cured hams hanging from wires? How about a vintage Bull Durham tobacco ad on old brick? Tom Poland explores scenic back roads that lead to heirlooms tomatoes, poke salad, restaurants once gas stations, overgrown ruins and other soulful relics.
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Historic buildings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Birds in the yard month by month / by Sorenson, Sharon.(CARDINAL)524889;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-401) and index.[1] January -- Species profiles -- Northern cardinal -- Carolina and black-capped chickadee -- Tufted titmouse -- Carolina wren -- Song sparrow -- [2] February -- Species profiles -- Downy woodpecker and hairy woodpecker -- Red-bellied woodpecker and hairy woodpecker -- Pileated woodpecker -- Northern flicker -- [3] March -- Species profiles -- American robin -- Eastern bluebird -- Red-winged blackbird and common grackle -- Brown-headed cowbird -- Purple martin -- [4] April -- Species profiles -- House wren -- Eastern phoebe and eastern wood-pewee -- Blue-gray gnatcatcher -- Yellow-throated warbler -- Baltimore oriole -- [5] May -- Species profiles -- Ruby-throated hummingbird -- Indigo bunting -- Rose-breasted grosbeak -- American goldfinch -- Yellow warbler -- [6] June -- Species profiles -- Northern mockingbird -- Gray catbird -- Brown thrasher -- Eastern meadowlark -- Chipping sparrow -- [7] July -- Species profiles -- Barn swallow -- Eastern towhee -- Common yellowthroat -- Killdeer -- Eastern kingbird -- [8] August -- Species profile -- Red-tailed hawk or red-shouldered hawk? -- Cooper's hawk or sharp-shinned hawk? -- American kestrel -- Turkey vulture, black vulture or buzzard? -- [9] September -- Species profiles -- Blue jay -- Cedar waxwing -- American crow or fish crow? -- Tree swallow -- European starling and house sparrow -- [10] October -- Species profiles -- White-throated sparrow and white-crowned sparrow -- Dark-eyed junco -- White-breasted nuthatch and red-breasted nuthatch -- House finch or purple finch -- [11] November -- Species profiles -- Mourning dove -- Canada goose -- Mallard -- Wild turkey -- Great blue heron -- [12] December -- Species profile -- Great horned owl -- Barred owl -- Yellow-rumped warbler -- Fox sparrow -- Field sparrow -- Habitat counts : final good words.Get to know all the birds that will flock to a bird-friendly yard, and make your yard more attractive to those that require a little extra persuasion to visit. Sorenson offers tips and advice for every season, and explains how bird behaviors and needs change throughout the year.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Birds; Bird watching; Bird attracting;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Visitations / by Bates, Jenny,author.(CARDINAL)495524;
If your soul is on a quest to balance the myriad minutia of life in the 21st century, then poet Jenny Bates' third collection, Visitations, is a must read. Bates' answers lie in the forest surrounding her home where by night the master vocals of the Barred Owl always call her to a portal of growth. By day, the Red Shouldered Hawk beckons to complete the summons, ٢Observe.٣ Whether plant or animal, wild or domesticated, Bates' communion with all that is not human, leads to a forgotten realm of holistic knowledge. Divided into four sections - Trust, Serve, Wait, Hope - seventy-four poems explore the red clay of her Carolina home and the bones it holds (Be Still, Red Clay (eulogy for a homeless dog); searches for the voices of wild geese and kestrals (Jabber Walk through Wonder-land ); and "mimic compelling anthropoid gestures" in the title poem, Visitations. Through the pages of this idiomatic, metaphysical collection, a gentle relationship between the mirror selves of naturalism and fantasy charm the unfeigned reader.
Subjects: Poetry.; American poetry.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wetland birds of North America : a guide to observation, understanding and conservation / by Leslie, Scott,1963-(CARDINAL)326436;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291) and index.Waterfowl : Canada goose ; Wood duck ; Mallard ; American black duck ; Northern pintail ; Northern shoveler ; Blue-winged teal ; Green-winged teal ; Ring-necked duck ; Bufflehead ; Hooded merganser -- Wading birds : American bittern ; Great blue heron ; Great egret ; Snowy egret ; Reddish egret ; Little blue heron ; Tri-colored heron ; Green heron ; Yellow-crowned night heron ; Glossy ibis ; White ibis ; Roseate spoonbill ; Wood stork ; Limpkin ; Sandhill crane -- Birds of prey : Osprey ; Norther harrier ; Red-shouldered hawk ; Bald eagle ; Peregrine falcon ; Short-eared owl -- Rails : Clapper rail ; Sora ; Common moorhen ; American coot -- Shorebirds, gulls and terns : Black-bellied plover ; Killdeer ; Semi-palmated plover ; Piping plover ; Snowy plover ; Wilson's plover ; American oystercatcher ; American avocet ; Greater yellowlegs ; Lesser yellowlegs ; Willet ; Pectoral sandpiper ; Semi-palmated sandpiper ; Least sandpiper ; Short-billed dowitcher ; Wilson's snipe ; Ring-billed gull ; Herring gull ; Caspian tern ; Black skimmer -- Diving birds : Common loon ; Pied-billed grebe ; American white pelican ; Brown pelican ; Anhinga ; Double-crested cormorant -- Perching birds : Belted Kingfisher ; Alder flycatcher ; Tree swallow ; Yellow warbler ; Common yellowthroat ; Savannah sparrow ; Song sparrow ; Swamp sparrow ; Bobolink ; Red-winged blackbird ; Common grackle -- Wetland birds : The future.Wetlands are home to the greatest diversity of bird species in North America. In this comprehensive guide, photographer and naturalist Scott Leslie covers more than 70 varieties, including waterfowl, birds of prey, diving birds and perching birds. Each entry provides a complete profile of a species, including appearance; behavior; food; distribution and migration; related species; habitat; calls and sounds; family life; conservation concerns; and a range map. In this beautiful and accurate resource for birders and naturalists, North America's most easily accessible bird-rich wetlands are revealed as some of the most fascinating natural areas on the continent - many of which are within surprisingly easy reach of cities and towns.
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Water birds; Bird watching;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Bird songs of the Smokies : voices & sounds [sound recording] / by Alsop, Fred,author. (CARDINAL)329097; Dunaway, Mark.; Dunaway, Marci.; Jones, Carey.; Great Smoky Mountains Association.(CARDINAL)556061;
Disc One: Introduction (8:15) -- Low to mid-elevation forests (49:54): Red-Shoulder hawk ; Yellow-billed cuckoo ; Red-bellied Woodpecker ; Downey woodpecker ; Northern flicker ; Pileated Woodpecker ; Eastern wood-pewee ; Acadian flycatcher ; Yellow throated vireo ; Blue jay ; Carolina chickadee ; Tufted titmouse ; White-breasted nuthatch ; Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ; Wood thrush ; Northern parula ; Yellow-throated warbler ; Black-and-white warbler ; Swainson's warbler ; Ovenbird ; Louisiana waterthrush ; Hooded warbler ; Scarlet tanager ; Northern cardinal -- Open areas, high to low (31:01): Wild turkey ; Northern bobwhite ; Kildeer ; Mourning dove ; American crow ; Eastern bluebird ; Common yellowthroat ; Chipping sparrow ; Field sparrow ; Blue grosbeak.Disc Two: Indigo bunting ; Red-winged blackbird ; Eastern meadowlark ; Common grackle ; American goldfinch -- Thickets, high to low elevations (12:17): White-eyed vireo ; Carolina wren ; Gray catbird ; Eastern towhee ; Song sparrow -- Northern Hardwood Forests (6:27): Blue-headed vireo ; Black-throated blue warbler ; Canada warbler -- Spruce-fir Forests (17:07): Peregrine falcon ; Black-capped chickadee ; Red-breasted nuthatch ; Brown creeper ; Winter wren ; Golden-crowned kinglet ; Veery ; Chestnut-sided warbler ; Dark-eyed junco -- All Elevations in Proper Habitat (13:03): Chimney swift ; Hairy woodpecker ; American robin ; Black-throated green warbler -- Voices in the Night (9:01): American woodcock ; Eastern screech-owl ; Barred owl ; Northern saw-whet owl ; Whip-poor will -- Dawn Choruses (10:59): Dawn chorus along a forest edge in Cades Cove ; Dawn chorus along a small stream in a Cades Cove field ; Dawn chorus along Rich Mountain Road ; Dawn chorus following a late night shower at Indian Gap ; Dawn chorus at Newfound Gap."This unique set of two CDs features the songs of 67 of the Smokies' most common birds. Each song is followed by narration about how to find the bird and description of some of its habits. Each species is on own numbered track for quick reference on your computer, CD player, or other device. In addition, bonus tracks have been added for your listing pleasure. Track 1 begins with a bird chorus recorded during an early morning along Rich Mountain Road. The final tracks capture the dawn choruses of numerous bird species recorded at various locations in the national park. Included with the set is a 10 page booklet describing each track and information about how the miraculous records were made. A total of over two hours of bird songs and narration"--Container back cover.
Subjects: Birds.; Birdsongs.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Bob Garner's book of barbecue : North Carolina's favorite food / by Garner, Bob,1946-author.(CARDINAL)211018;
In 1994, Bob Garner began doing short features about barbecue for UNC-TV's statewide public-television magazine program, North Carolina Now. In 1996, he published North Carolina Barbecue: Flavored by Time, taking readers on a delectable journey across the state in search of the best examples of this distinctive North Carolina delicacy. After Garner produced a one-hour television special based on his book, he quickly became known throughout North Carolina as ٢the barbecue man.٣ In 2002, he published Bob Garner's Guide to North Carolina Barbecue, which describes the 100 best barbecue restaurants from the mountains to the sea. Bob Garner's Book of Barbecue: North Carolina's Favorite Food preserves the heritage and tradition of a disappearing rural lifestyle while showing how barbecue continues to evolve. Packed full of recipes for barbecue and popular side dishes (above and beyond the traditional hush puppies, slaw, and 'nana pudding); sidebars with useful tips, barbecue-related news, and features; and profiles of past and present influential pit masters and barbecue aficionados, this tome is the definitive guide to anything and everything pertaining to North Carolina's favorite food.
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Barbecuing; Restaurants; North Caroliniana.;
Available copies: 28 / Total copies: 32
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