Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 22:47:37 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: New Field Guide Comments: cc: Jack Reese , Donna Finnegan , Jim Potyraj MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [CAUTION: This posting is only tangentially bird related!] Are you a county lister that has already found every Maryland bird in = every Maryland county, as well as Baltimore and D.C.? Do you feel like = there are no further challenges to meet, no more mountains to climb? Are you bedraggled by butterflies or dragged down by dragonflies? Well have I got a field guide for you --- Thanks to my buddy Rick Blom, I have received a copy of "A Field Guide = to Cows: How to Identify and Appreciate America's 52 Breeds" by John = Pukite (Penguin Books). Have you seen a Holstein in Harford, a = Tarentaise in Talbot, a Kerry in Kent, a Guernsey in Garrett --- the = list goes on and on. The book is actually an entertaining 142 pages. It = covers such topics as: How to identify cows Clothing and equipment (binoculars, footwear, ...) Viewing tips (best times of the day, how to approach, ...) Cautions (bulls, cow pies, electric fences, ...) Cow watching etiquette (Don't moo excessively, ...) Key to the cows Breed descriptions Taxonomic chart of cows The book also deal with the dreaded hybrids. (They are as bad as gulls.) Famous cows (Do you remember Norman in "City Slickers"?) Cow superlatives At the end, the book includes a Cow Watcher's Life List as well as a cow = call. And if you are MOOOved into joining, there is an organization called = "Cow Observers Worldwide" (COW) based in Evans City, Pennsylvania. I heartily recommend this book to all adventurous naturalists looking = for a new pasture to cross - but watch your step. Gene Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland ejscarp@home.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================