Freeway Birding: San Francisco to Seattle

Freeway Birding by Harry Fuller – Praise

Traveling I-5 will never be the same. [Freeway Birding] is a great book–even if you aren’t a birder! The maps and information are consistent, clear and easy to use. Who could imagine so many great places to bird, hike and relax near interstate 5? If you are a birder, the places you usuallly whizz past on the interstate might just turn into your destinations. The birding information is specific and very helpful, including additional references. We have already checked out a number of the places described in the book and look forward to visiting more of them. With the simple maps and descriptions, the featured “stops” are easy to find. We took our book to some friends’ house to show them. They greeted us with the copy they had, “Have you seen this great book we got?” We recommend that you get your copy too. -Celise & Dennis (posted on Amazon 3/12/2013)

I am very pleased with the [Freeway Birding]. For example, in “Ashland Pond” you have make clear “What you’ll find”, i.e. “EBird list over 145 species”, “the Zonotrichia flock [in winter]”, “the pond rarely freezes solid”, etc.  You give specific directions, e.g., “Exit 1, I-5” and [you] name plant species and their associations with bird species. The essays are a very nice feature, the Spotted Owl essay was very helpful.  In it you say a lot in a crisp, lucid manner. I am making good use of the specialty species appendix, and the index appears to be very good.  Your writing seems to parallel how I think, for me the text flows. I don’t have to go back to reread a passage to be clear on the information. And, the answers to my questions are there.  You said early on, “you need my book,” you were indeed spot on.  -Byron Butler, retired ornithologist

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