AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE
Watkins Newsletter
Editor: Eleisia Whitney
Email: eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com
Website: http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
Make Your House a Watkins Home
October 1, 2007
Volume 6, Issue 67
All Rights Reserved
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Welcome to this issue.
Pour yourself a cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate and pull up a chair.
Get ready to spice up your life!
The Spice For This Issue
Editor's Comments
Motivational Words
Super Specials for October - Vanilla, Cinnamon, and Black Pepper
2007 Holiday Gifts and Entertaining Products
October Specials
Laugh With Me
Contest- September Winner and New October Contest
Kitchen Tip
Health Tip
Recipes - Slow-Cooked Praline Apple Crisp, Crock Pot Turkey Breast, Cranberry-Orange Pork Roast, Peppery Herbed Turkey Tenderloin, and Caramel Dip for Sliced Apples
Bird Watching - Top 10 Ways to Get Better at Bird Identification
Customer Rewards
Shipping Rates
Join Our Team
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Watkins Visit our online catalog to see our complete product line and October specials.
If you would like to receive a Watkins catalog and product sample, send me an email with catalog and sample in the subject line. Send to:
eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com
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EDITORS COMMENTS
Welcome to another issue of Around the Kitchen Table!
Autumn has officially arrived. The leaves are beginning to change color as the days grow cooler. The fall apple picking season will begin soon.
Our 2007 Holiday Gifts and Entertaining Products are now available at our online catalog. Some of the new products include Holiday Sprinkles Set, Baked Potato Soup Mix, Snowflake Cookie Cutters, Mini Shower and Travel Kit, Mini Moisturizer Kit, Head to Toe Starter Kit, Roasted Garlic Snack and Dip Mix, and Country Gravy Mix. You'll find them under Gifts.
Recipes this issue include Slow-Cooked Praline Apple Crisp, Crock Pot Turkey Breast, Cranberry-Orange Pork Roast, Peppery Herbed Turkey Tenderloin, and Caramel Dip for Sliced Apples. If you have a slow cooker recipe to share, email me and I'll include it in the next issue.
If you are interested in starting your own Watkins Home Business get all the details at:
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Build your own home business so you can stay home with your family, save for your children's college fund, retire early, pay off bills, or save for retirement. With consistent effort you can build a thriving business! Let me help you.
I love to hear from you. Any suggestions to make this newsletter more informative and helpful are appreciated.
Make your house a Watkins home.
Until next issue,

eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com
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MOTIVATIONAL WORDS
Autumn, the years last, loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant
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SUPER SPECIALS FOR OCTOBER
 
Double Strength Vanilla 11 fl oz
01008 Special $9.99 USD/ $11.99 CAD
Original Price $12.99 USD/ $15.99 CAD
Watkins Vanilla is made from the world's finest Madagascar Bourbon vanilla beans, brewed using the process we perfected over the course of a century. Our blending of ingredients makes the flavor bake-proof and freeze-proof as well as double-strength.
Cinnamon 170 g/6 oz Tin
01115 Special $5.99 USD/ $7.49 CAD
Original Price $6.99 USD/ $8.99 CAD
Our award winning high-oil Korintje Cassia Cinnamon has been a part of family rituals like Thanksgiving pumpkin pie and Christmas cookies for more than 100 years. Make it a part of yours; you'll see what all the fuss is about.
Pepper 340 g/12 oz Tin
01140 Special $10.99 USD/ $15.99 CAD
Original Price $15.49 USD/ $21.49 CAD
When it comes to the world's most important spice, you might as well use the best. Watkins only uses top quality Malabar and Lampong peppercorns that are carefully screened to eliminate fillers and stems. These screened peppercorns are then granulated using our exclusive process that creates less friction and retains their high essential oil content.
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2007 Holiday Gifts and Entertaining Products Available Now
See them at Watkins Online Catalog under Gifts or click here. If you'd like a monthly catalog showing our new gift line products just email me at eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com with "Gift Line Catalog" in the subject line.
Watkins special edition holiday extracts Hazelnut, Anise, and Irish Cream.
Your favorite holiday beverages, including Traditional Cider Brew, White Chocolate Almond Cocoa, Peppermint Stick Cocoa, Cinnamon Cocoa, and the Beverage Sampler Set.
Everyone's favorite seasonal quick breads Orange Spice Bread Mix and Apple Spice Bread Mix.
Festive holiday condiments Cinna-Cream Sprinkles, Pumpkin Butter, and Cranberry Mustard.
For the bakers Shortbread Cookie Mix, Holiday Sprinkles Set, and Snowflake Cookie Cutters.
Kitchen staples Cream of Tartar, Savory Baked Potato Soup, Roasted Garlic Snack & Dip Mix, and Country Gravy Mix.
Delightful room fresheners Menthol Eucalyptus, Peppermint, and Winter Pine.
Watkins personal care kits Watkins Shower and Travel Kit, Mini-Moisturizer Kit and Head-to-Toe Starter Kit.
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OCTOBER SPECIALS
View October Specials Online
Gourmet Extracts, 2 fl oz/59 ml
Regularly $4.99 - Special $4.49 each
21380 Almond
21371 Butter Pecan
21383 Coconut
21365 Peanut Butter
21376 Vanilla Nut
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Baker's Size Extracts, 6 fl oz/180 ml
Regularly $8.99 - Special $8.49 each
01191 Almond
01192 Butter
01193 Caramel
01194 Coconut
01195 Lemon
01196 Vanilla
Regularly $10.49 - Special $9.49 each
01197 Pure Vanilla
Regularly $16.99 - Special $16.49 each
Original Double-Strength Vanilla in Glass Mark™ Bottle - Limited Quantities!
00350 Regularly $16.99 - Special $12.99 each
Spice Towels (set of 2) - Limited Quantities!
05629 Regularly $12.99 - Special $9.99 or $4.99 with any $50.00 order
Holiday Cookie Bake Set
05713 Regularly $21.17 - Special $17.99 each
This gift set of Shortbread Cookie Mix, Holiday Sprinkles Set (candy canes, snowflakes, and holly) and Snowflake Cookie Cutters (5 cookie cutters in a tin) provides all you need to make wonderful holiday cookies!
Shortbread Cookie Mix, Holiday Sprinkles Set, and Snowflake Cookie Cutters can each be purchased separately under Gifts - Holiday Gifts and Entertaining - 2007 in the online catalog.
Chai - Limited Quantities!
01205 Regularly $7.99 each
Infuser - Limited Quantities!
05080 Regularly $3.99 or just $2.66 with the purchase of one Chai (01205)
Logo Baking Pan - Limited Quantities!
05611 Regularly $10.49 - Special $8.99 each
Cooking Spray
01040 Regularly $6.49 each
All-Natural Baking Cocoa
01038 Regularly $4.99 each
Baking Powder
01039 Regularly $3.99 or just $2.66 with the purchase of one Cooking Spray (01040) and one Baking Cocoa (01038)
Original Double-Strength Vanilla - Save $3.00
01008 Regularly $12.99 - Unadvertised Special $9.99 each
Purest Ground Cinnamon - All-Natural - Save $1.00
01115 Regularly $6.99 - Special $5.99 each
All-Natural Baking Spices
Regularly $4.99 - Special $4.59 each
01961 Apple Bake Seasoning
01982 Pumpkin Pie Spice
Mexican Soup and Seasoning Base
21182 Regularly $8.49 - Special $7.99 each
Six Onion Soup Base
21183 Regularly $8.49 - Special $7.99 each
Roasted Turkey Gourmet Gravy Mix
21173 Regularly $8.49 - Special $8.09 each
All-Natural Poultry Seasoning
21143 Regularly $5.99 - Purchase one Poultry Seasoning (21143) at regular price, get the second for $2.99 each
Gourmet Seasoning Blends
Regularly $4.99 - Special $4.59 each
01959 Chili Seasoning
01967 Fajita Seasoning
01989 Fish and Seafood Seasoning
01976 Meatloaf Seasoning
01979 Pizza Seasoning
01983 Salsa Seasoning
Flavored Salts - Save $.50
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01993 Butter Flavored Salt
01996 Celery Salt
01998 Garlic Salt
01997 Onion Salt
Purest Granulated Black Pepper, 12 oz/340 g All-Natural - Save $4.50
01141 Regularly $15.49 - Special $10.99 each
USDA Certified 100% Organic Spices
Regularly $4.99 - Special $4.59 each
00503 Basil
00591 Chili Powder
00598 Cinnamon
00592 Cumin
00505 Curry Powder
00509 Dill
00500 Garlic Powder
00595 Ginger
00596 Mustard (dry)
00501 Onion Powder
00594 Oregano
00593 Paprika
00508 Parsley
00504 Rosemary
00506 Sage
00502 Thyme
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00507 Cloves (ground)
00590 Ground Black Pepper
Regularly $6.49 - Special $6.09 each
00589 Nutmeg
Hand and Body Lotions - Save $.50
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10470 Aloe and Green Tea
10525 Citrus and Chamomile
10486 Lavender
10487 Lemon Cream
10520 Mango
10474 Vanilla
All-Natural Body Oils
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10513 Fragrance-free
10514 Lavender
10515 Lemon
All-Natural Hand and Cuticle Salves
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60481 Lavender
60521 Lemon
60518 Lavender Travel Size
60522 Lemon Travel Size
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60480 Regularly $6.99 each
Red Clover Hand and Cuticle Salve Travel Size
60517 Regularly $3.79 or just $2.54 with purchase of regular size
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SoyNilla
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Menthol Camphor Ointment and Rub
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Orange Citrus Candle
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Watkins Liniment - Save $2.00
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Many other products are featured in the October Highlights Catalog and October Specials Online.
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LAUGH WITH ME
One day, I eagerly waited for John to comment on my first attempt at homemade cinnamon rolls. After several minutes with no reaction, I asked, "If I baked these commercially, how much do you think I could get for one of them?" Without looking up from his newspaper John replied, "About 10 years."
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ENTER OCTOBER CONTEST
Thanks for reading my newsletter and entering each month. Please don't quit; you might be next month's winner!
September's winner is Peggy. She wins her choice of a 6 oz tin of Watkins Cinnamon or Watkins Black Pepper.
September's contest was to tell us about your favorite TV Celebrity Chef or a favorite cook or chef in your family. I'm including some of your answers below.
"My current favorite chef is my grandson, Brayden. He is eleven and loves to cook. When we have a family dinner each family brings something and he wants to be the one to cook for the family dinner at his house. He started by learning to make snicker doodles from his father. Since then he has learned to make a three layer ice cream cake for his brother's birthday, He remembered to take out the waxed paper between the layers. Now Brayden is learning to make cheesecake. Last time he was here he printed off about 20 cheesecake recipes from the computer for cheesecake and about fifty other recipes that caught his eye. They will have a busy kitchen in their home. It is great to have a enthusiastic budding chef in the family." Peggy
"I have to say my 'Celebrity Chef' has to be my MOM. Since I was seven years old I was behind her apron strings learning to cook. Such a young age because my mom was a very sick lady with diabetes. She taught me everything I know! Even when she was sick she would tell me what to do so I could cook for our family. Unfortunately, she is no longer with us and hasn't been for over 20+years. Missing her dearly now I rely on the Betty Crocker cookbook and the internet for new recipes along with and especially this newsletter for any new ideas and recipes. I'm always experimenting and look for new recipes. Thanks Mom!" Lilly
"My favorite TV Chef is The Naked Chef. Everything he prepares is so good and easy. The Naked Chef is Jamie Oliver. If you check out the foodnetwork.com and go to the TV tab, there is information on him there." Margaret
"My favorite chef is my mom. She always seemed to enjoy cooking so much; she made cooking fun.
Blessings," Naomi
"My favorite cook was my Grandmother Pearl. Boy, could she cook ! She had an old stove without any thermostat or timer or light in the oven, or any of the new modern things. The oven door had an old fashioned latch on it to keep it closed, not spring loaded like today. She could make the best pies and cakes. She was a widow and lived alone for almost 20 years, but she always had something ready for when she had company or one of us kids came over. She got up every morning and put on makeup, hose, & jewelry. She was a true southern lady in every sense of the word. I was fortunate enough to grow up living next door to this woman." Delores
The winner of October's contest will win our Holiday Sprinkles Set. Decorating cookies during the holidays is a wonderful tradition. There's nothing like decorating freshly baked cookies right from the oven. This set includes candy canes, snowflakes, and holly berries.
To enter October's contest please email me your favorite holiday cookie recipe, whether it's for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas. Email your cookie recipe with your name and address to eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com with "October Contest - Holiday Cookie Recipe" in the subject line.
Make your life the best it can be. Eat nutritious foods, exercise, love, and laugh!
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COOKING TIP
A Pumpkin Treat
Bake your favorite cupcakes and assemble them on a large round platter in a close circle with 2 cupcakes lined up at the top. Using an orange frosting cover the entire shape. Add 2 Oreos for eyes and a black licorice whip for a mouth. Green candy sprinkles can embellish the stem at the top. To make orange frosting mix yellow and red food coloring with your frosting.
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HEALTH TIP
A citrus bowl isn't just an end-of-season showcase of college-football talent. It's also a winning strategy against this deadly disease: cancer.
That's right. Keep a bowl full of oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruit on your kitchen counter and you'll have access to a formidable lineup of limonoids, special phytochemicals known to help give colon, skin, and other cancers the boot.
Limonoids not only help fight cancer but also may cut cholesterol. And citrus fruits provide a healthy dose of other good-for-you nutrients, too, like potassium, folate, and vitamin C.
ThirdAge Health and Wellness
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RECIPES
I tend to use my slow cooker or crock pot more during the fall and winter months. I'm going to include at least one slow cooker recipe in each issue, so dust off your slow cookers and get ready to simmer! If you have a favorite slow cooker recipe, email me and I will share it with our subscribers.
Slow Cooker Tips
Slow-Cooked Praline Apple Crisp
6 medium-size crisp tart apples, peeled if desired, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices (about 6 cups)
1 teaspoon Watkins Cinnamon
1/2 cup quick-cooking oats
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cold butter, cut into small pieces
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup toffee bits
Ice cream
- Spray 3- to 4-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. In large bowl, mix apples and cinnamon to coat. Place in slow cooker.
- In medium bowl, mix oats, brown sugar, flour and butter with pastry blender or fork until crumbly. Stir in pecans and toffee bits. Sprinkle crumb mixture evenly over apples.
- Cover; cook on Low heat setting 4 to 5 hours. Serve apple crisp with ice cream.
If you’d like the apple slices to retain their shape and have a slightly firm texture, cook for approximately 4 hours.
Crock Pot Turkey Breast
Turkey breast
3 tablespoons Watkins Onion Soup Base or 3 tablespoons Watkins Roasted Turkey Gravy Mix
1 can of cranberry sauce
Salt and Watkins Pepper to taste
Place turkey breast in crock pot. Sprinkle salt, pepper and the onion soup base or turkey gravy mix on all sides of the turkey breast. Add cranberry sauce on top of turkey breast and cook in crockpot on low for 8 hours or for three to four hours on high. When tender carefully remove turkey breast from crock pot and slice.
Cranberry-Orange Pork Roast
Boneless pork loin roast
1 (16-ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons grated orange zest
1 teaspoon Watkins Thyme
1/4 teaspoon Watkins Cinnamon
In a bowl, stir together cranberry sauce, brown sugar, orange peel, thyme, and cinnamon. Place roast in a shallow baking dish. Spread with half the cranberry mixture. Roast, uncovered, at 325 degrees F., for 1 to 2 hours depending on the size of the roast, until internal temperature registers 155 degrees F with a meat thermometer. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing to serve. Heat remaining cranberry mixture and serve with roast.
This recipe can also be cooked in a slow cooker. Place pork roast in slow cooker. Mix remaining ingredients and pour over roast. Cook on low for 8 to 10 hours.
Peppery Herbed Turkey Tenderloin
3 turkey breast tenderloins (12 ounces each)
1 cup dry white wine or apple juice
3 green onions, chopped
3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley or 1 tablespoon Watkins Parsley
6 teaspoons olive oil, divided
1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
3/4 teaspoon Watkins Rosemary
3/4 teaspoon Watkins Thyme
1 teaspoon Watkins Pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
4 1/2 tablespoons Watkins Roasted Turkey Gourmet Gravy Mix
Pat tenderloins dry; flatten to 3/4-in. thickness. In a bowl, combine the wine or juice, onions, parsley, 4 teaspoons oil, garlic, rosemary and thyme; mix well. Pour 3/4 cup marinade into a large resealable plastic bag; add turkey. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for at least 4 hours, turning occasionally. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade.
Drain and discard marinade from turkey. Sprinkle turkey with pepper and salt. In a large nonstick skillet, cook turkey in remaining oil for 5-6 minutes on each side or until no longer pink. Remove and keep warm.
In a bowl, wisk the water, turkey gravy mix, and reserved marinade until smooth; pour into skillet. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened. Slice turkey; serve with sauce.
Yield 6 servings.
Caramel Dip for Sliced Apples
From Family Circle Magazine
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
3/4 cup light corn syrup
1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon Watkins Vanilla
1/4 teaspoon Watkins Ground Cinnamon
Pinch salt
6 different types of snacking apples, cored and cut into 10 slices
Combine butter, sugar, corn syrup and milk in saucepan, Heat over medium
heat, stirring to dissolve sugar, 5 minutes. Stir in vanilla, cinnamon and
salt. Pour into dipping bowl. Serve with apple slices.
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BIRD WATCHING
Top 10 Ways to Get Better at Bird Identification
by Bill Thompson, III, editor of Bird Watcher's Digest
Many backyard bird watchers struggle to identify certain birds. This is perfectly natural. Almost every bird watcher - even a seasoned pro - gets stumped once in a while by a fall-plumaged warbler or a confusing recent fledgling. The trick is to not let it ruin your fun in watching birds. Here are a few tips to help you get better at bird identification. These tips will work for you with the birds at your feeder and with the birds you'd encounter while hiking up Macchu Pichu.
- Practice with your binoculars. Am I a master of the obvious or what? Still, you've got to admit that you've missed a bird or two because you couldn't find it in your binocs. Or because you did not have your binoculars prefocused with the diopter properly set for the situation. Or maybe you found the bird but turned the focus wheel the wrong way. I've made all these mistakes, and I've seen them made hundreds of times. It's frustrating, because the bird you missed might have been something really special. Next time you're out birding, take the time to practice the quick draw with your binoculars. Imagine a bird on a distant tree or power pole. Whip your binocs into viewing position and focus. How did you do? A little slow on the draw? You can't get better at identifying birds if you're not good at finding them in your binoculars in the first place.
- Leaf through the field guide. Again, perhaps an obvious suggestion, but a few hours spent really looking at the illustrations and reading the species descriptions will help your knowledge base grow. You won't remember everything, but what you do remember will surely help you the next time you are faced with an unfamiliar bird. Not all field guides are created equal, so choose the one or two that you prefer and spend some quality time with them.
- Listen to bird song CDs and tapes. This really helps. Of all the practicing that most bird watchers do, few of them spend enough time learning bird sounds, calls, and songs. These days this is easy with all the recordings available to us. If you are not sure about which recording to get, ask your fellow birders. Your region may have its own set of bird recordings. Once you choose a set of recordings, I suggest you start with a group of birds, such as vireos or thrushes, rather than trying to tackle all the birds of North America at once. Check out our array of bird song products in our Nature Shop.
- Take advantage of cooperative birds. Shorebirds are tough for me, especially the small sandpipers known as "peeps." When I first sit down at a mudflat full of these small brownish shorebirds, they literally all look alike. But after I spend some time looking at one bird and noting its shape, behavior, general field marks, and then another bird, and another, some differences between the species begin to emerge. Taking your time and taking advantage of cooperative birds is a great way to get better at bird ID. As you become a more careful, experienced observer, you will begin to know what to look for among groups of confusing birds, such as fall warblers, sparrows, or even peeps. The next challenge is to have regular encounters with these confusing species so that you don't become rusty or forget what you've learned.
- Start at the top of the head and work down and back. You see an unfamiliar sparrow. It's got lots of subtle field marks, almost too many to count. The best way to get a handle on the situation is to be methodical. Start at the top of the bird's head and note any field marks there. Then work your way visually down to the breast/belly and back toward the bird's tail, keeping track of notable field marks. If there are a lot of field marks to remember, make a few notes or a quick sketch. If you get confused, start over. Most birds, especially most sparrows, can be identified by the field marks on the face and head. Look through the field guide and you'll see what I mean.
- Ask questions. Any time you are with another bird watcher who is as good or better at bird identification, ask them questions. Not sure what to ask? One example might be, "How did you know that flying speck in the sky was a chimney swift?" More than 98 out of every 100 bird watchers will gladly answer you (and will be secretly flattered that you asked). The only bad question about bird identification is the one you don't ask.
- Keep a list. There's almost nothing I like better in bird watching than keeping a list of all the species I see in each of my sessions in our birding tower. It's not so much help with identification as it is in seeing seasonally what to expect. This is how I knew, before raising my binoculars, that the little greenish-yellow bird wagging its tail in our lawn was probably a palm warbler. I looked at last year's tower nature notes and saw that the first week of October last year had a lot of palm warbler sightings. Knowing what you're likely to see and when you're likely to see it can help you make an identification more quickly.
- Make notes and sketches. It can be tough to tell a sharp-shinned hawk from a Cooper's hawk. There are lots of clues and field marks outlined in the field guides, but I always had trouble remembering them until I took the time to write them down when I was at a hawk watch site with an experienced hawk watcher. She rattled off several ID tips and I wrote them in the back of my field guide. I can still remember them to this day. Next to the words I drew a little sketch showing how the Cooper's hawk's head protrudes farther in front of the leading edge of the wings and the tail extends farther back from the trailing edge. Those two acts - writing and drawing - really helped cement the knowledge in my mental reference library.
- Use memory devices. Downy dinky, hairy huge. This is how I learned the difference between downy and hairy woodpeckers. It refers to the size of the bill relative to the size of the bird's head. The alliteration helped this to stick in my brain. Memory devices work for field marks and for bird songs, too. That's how I learned that the eastern (rufous-sided) towhee says "Drink your tea!"
- Look at every bird. Sure this can get boring, but it will make you familiar with the common birds more quickly, so when something unfamiliar shows up, you'll know what it's not. A corallary to this tip is to look at the bird, not at the book. The field guide will be there long after the bird flies away.
Visit my birdwatching blog California Birdwatching for pictures of my backyard friends.
Top 25 bird lists by state and region for the 2005-2006 season are now online.
View lists of the most common feeder birds in each state or province.
Map of FeederWatch Count Sites
rightbird.com for information about familiar and unfamiliar birds. Instantly see illustrations of birds that match the attributes you select. The more characteristics you know, the narrower the search is for the "right bird." Includes audible bird call samples.
Project FeederWatch
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