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Samples of Naturally Curious eNotes
Naturally Curious eNotes
June 19, 2008
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SHIPPING on orders over $25.00.
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rising gas prices and years of postal hikes and raise the Free
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New
1.
Birdwatcher, The Life of
Roger Tory Peterson by Rosenthal. His friends and associates share
their stories of the man who revolutionized nature study, and was born
100 years ago this August.
2. Finding
Your Wings, Guttman for Peterson Field Guides.
A workbook for beginning bird watchers that will truly enhance your
early days going solo in the field!
3. Flights
Against the Sunset
For the legions of Kenn Kaufman fans.
4.
Field Guide to Ticks,
2nd edition - A Falcon Guide by Hauser. Don't
let fear of ticks spoil your enthusiasm for the outdoors.
New for
Texas:
1.
Finding Birds on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail
Houston, Galveston and the Upper Texas
Coast, Eubanks, et al. Even if you never go there, and especially
if you do plan to enjoy the natural side of Houston.
2.
Paddling the Guadalupe
by McAlister. Canoe the entire length of one of Texas' most scenic and
over-loved rivers with a life-long naturalist and biologist, share his
joy and reaction to seeing people trash the river.
Events:
It's a hot, dry end
of spring in Texas, so there aren't too many nature-centered events going
on this summer that we are aware of. In September, we'll attend the
Hummingbird Festival in Rockport, and help the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
with their Hummingbird Saturdays. See a list on
our
Events Page. but remember, we don't attend every event!
Please visit
our partner stores'
partner stores' websites to find out what programs and events they are
hosting/attending.
Notes
We have created a Google Group
account for our eNotes, and invite you to migrate there. Along with
making it easier for us to send out our enotes, it will eventually allow
us to do more targeted notes, so you can get notes on what interests you
most. We'll be the only ones sending out messages, so you still won't
average more than one message a month. To switch, just enter your email
in the Google box below, then follow the simple activation link. We'll
continue to send these eNotes from aol.com, including the next message
to you. We don't want to lose you, so if you'll reply with DUPE in the
subject, we'll take you off these AOL-based notes.
Thank you!
Sandy and
Randy
Nature Education for a Better Life
Fine Print: It's still Randy or Sandy who send this message and handle every inquiry and order. We send emails regularly with special offers, alerts on new products and general information. We collect most names through drawings and sign up sheets at professional conferences, nature festivals and other meetings we attend. If you want to be removed from our list, please reply to this email with "REMOVE" in the subject or as your message (we will remove it and let you know that we did, if you have multiple emails, we may need to contact you to find the address we use). If we've duplicated your address, please respond with DUPE and we'll take you off this part of our list.
Naturally Curious eNotes
January 29, 2008
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FREE SHIPPING on orders over $25.00 continues!
We have created a Google Group
account for our eNotes, and invite you to migrate there. Along with
making it easier for us to send out our enotes, it will eventually allow
us to do more targeted notes, so you can get notes on what interests you
most. We'll be the only ones sending out messages, so you still won't
average more than one message a month. To switch, just enter your email
in the Google box below, then follow the simple activation link. If
you'll reply to this message with Switched, I'll know
that you've done it and take you off of this aol.com list. We'll continue
to send these eNotes from aol.com, too.
New
1.
DA Bluebird/Suet Feeder A simple
wooden feeder with a peanut butter mash recipe and other information.
See all of our
Bluebird items.
2.
Invasive Plants, Sylvan Ramsey
Kaufman and Wallace Kaufman
3.
Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants,
Brooklyn Botanical Gardens All Region Guide
4.
Mac version of the Thayer/CLO Birds of North America -
Now shipping, but still waiting on an update to
make it Leopard compatible.
New for
Texas:
2.
T-shirt, Birds of the Texas Gulf Coast
by Gerald Sneed M- XXL in Lake and Stone-washed
Blue, $20 and $22.00
Events:
February is full of
learning opportunities! In fact there are so many meetings, we can't
attend them all! We will be setting up at the
TOWMA
(Texas Organization of Wildlife Management Associations) Spring
Stewardship Conference (meet TPWD's new Executive Director, Carter Smith),
Kyle, Feb. 1-2; The Texas
Chapter of the Wildlife Society, San Antonio, 14-16 February 2008, A
Celebration of
Whooping Cranes, Feb. 22-24, Port Aransas;
Texas Land Trust Council
Statewide Conference 2008, Austin, Feb. 21-23, 2008, and the
Austin Butterfly Forum
with Ro Wauer, February 25th, Zilker Park, Austin. There are other great
events that we won't be attending listed on our
Events Page.
Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda
visit, Partners in Flight and
Quinta Mazatlan, McAllen (Feb. 13-16) and Austin (Feb. 17-18),
including a lecture and social at the Mexican
American Cultural Center,600 River Street, Austin. This is a
great
opportunity to meet the nationally recognized co-founder of Grupo
Ecologico and the director of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in
Queretaro, Mexico, Pati Ruiz Corzo.
More information.
Please visit
our partner stores'
partner
stores' websites to find out what programs and events they are
hosting/attending.
Thank you!
Sandy and
Randy
Nature Education for a Better Life
Fine Print: It's still Randy or Sandy who send this message and handle every inquiry and order. We send emails regularly with special offers, alerts on new products and general information. We collect most names through drawings and sign up sheets at professional conferences, nature festivals and other meetings we attend. If you want to be removed from our list, please reply to this email with "REMOVE" in the subject or as your message (we will remove it and let you know that we did, if you have multiple emails, we may need to contact you to find the address we use). If we've duplicated your address, please respond with DUPE and we'll take you off this part of our list.
This one is a little longer than most.....
Naturally Curious eNotes
7 June 2006
We are launching our new online store,
Naturally Curious Direct, our original store is still online, but not being
updated. See below for details! Still free shipping for purchases over
$25.00.
New:
Birding Software: Cornell Lab
of Ornithology/Thayer Birding Software's Guide to Birds of North America ver.
3.5 is now available!
Learn more about the new
Software version
Already have the software? See how to
upgrade (through 26 June for the best price!).
New Books -
National
The Shorebird Guide -
Shorebirds demystified and celebrated
Learn More
See new
Shorebird Aisle at Naturally Curious Direct eStore.
Pete Dunne's Essential Field
Guide Companion - A true companion, designed to be used with your
favorite field guide.
Learn More
New Books -
Texas
Birder's Guide to the Texas Coast - expanded, updated,
reformatted
Learn More
Grasses of the Texas Hill Country - color pictures really
do help!
Learn More
Trees, Shrubs and Vines of the Texas Hill Country -
includes land management tips and species accounts.
Learn More
Texas Wildflowers - Damon Waitt updates the Loughmillers'
popular book, totally reformatted.
Learn More
New in
Paperback
The Grail Bird,
updated forward following the 're-discovery' of the Ivory-billed
Woodpecker
Learn More
In Search of the Ivory-billed
Woodpecker - includes a discussion of the points used by those who
believe and those who don't believe the Ivory-bill still flies in
Arkansas
Learn More
A Perfect Red - adventure
filled history of the world's thirst for the first true red dye, from the
cochineal beetle!
Learn More
New Online
Gorgas Science Foundation books, DVDs, VHS and audio CD. The
Grail Bird, We are excited to be able to work with Brownsville
Texas' Gorgas Science Foundation, the organization that introduced Sandy
to the El Cielo area of Tamaulipas through their field station at Rancho
El Cielito. They produced John Bax's films on Northern Mexico, the Rio
Grande Valley and his life as a nature cinematographer, an audio CD from
El Cielo, and a book and DVD on India's cloud forest in the Western Ghat
Mountains.
See all the Gorgas productions.
Our new online store Naturally
Curious Direct.
We are adding
pages and items regularly now, but are still working on the details. We
have over 100 items available there, so we are catching up to our original
Specialty Store. You'll be able to register, so you won't have to re-enter
your shipping and billing information every time you order. We'll be able
to organize it better, too. If you want items from both stores, just place
the order in the new store, and use the 'ordering instructions' box
to let us know what else you would like to add to your
order.
See the Store.
Our new homepage. If you are visiting or
traveling Texas this summer, or building your naturalist library go to
Exploring Texas. Looking for some summer study or science projects, see our
nature-based science project ideas.
Our newest Partner Store
Quinta Mazatlan, McAllen's wing of the World
Birding Center
(Link to their website)
A 1930’s country
estate in the heart of McAllen, Quinta Mazatlan is an historic Spanish
Revival adobe hacienda surrounded by lush tropical landscaping and native
woodland. A unique conference and events center, close to airports and
hotels, Quinta Mazatlan is also an urban oasis, where quiet trails wind
through more than 15 acres of birding habitat, enhanced with water and
feeders. With the tropical gardens and remnant Tamaulipan thorn forest,
Quinta Mazatlan is both restive and a productive birding spot to see Valley
specialties.
Events: It's a quiet summer so
far! Check our
Events page to see what we've scheduled, or plan future nature
festival trips.
And a personal note: I'd like to
extend my appreciation to all of you who sent cards, emails and called after
my accident in March. Although I truly count myself as lucky to have walked
away from a roll-over accident that totaled one of our vans, it was very
comforting to hear from so many people! Thank you all. Sandy
Sandy
and Randy
Nature Education for a Better Life
Fine Print: It's still Randy or Sandy who send this message and handle every inquiry and order. We send emails regularly with special offers, alerts on new products and general information. We collect most names through drawings and sign up sheets at professional conferences, nature festivals and other meetings we attend. If you want to be removed from our list, please reply to this email with "REMOVE" in the subject or as your message (we will remove it and let you know that we did, if you have multiple emails, we may need to contact you to find the address we use). If we've duplicated your address, please respond with DUPE and we'll take you off this part of our list. We like it when you just say, "Hi!" too. *******
The following links go to our original store, which we are no longer updating,
and will eventually be closed:
Naturally Curious eNotes
2 February 2006
See all of these books in the
Featured Items aisle in our online Specialty Store
New Items, National Interest
1.
Singing Life of Birds, Kroodsma
2.
Birdsong, A Natural History, Stap
3.
Hawks from Every Angle, Liguori
4.
Bird-witched! Adams
Texas Hill
Country and Beyond
1.
Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country, Enquist. Back in print!
2. Texas Hill Country Birds,
T-shirt and
Mug featuring Gerald Sneed's stylistic Golden-cheeked Warbler,
Black-capped Vireo and Painting Bunting.
Go to the Featured
Items aisle in our online Specialty Store to see, learn more
about and/or order all of these great new items.
Free Shipping on orders of $25.00 or more still applies.
For orders under $25.00, it's just $3.00!
We're going to have to raise our postage to $3.50 on 15 February though
(thanks to the postal rate increase and fuel costs).
Upcoming
Events: (some of which we are unable to attend), February:
Natural History of Central Texas Owls; February
3-4, Hornsby Bend, Austin; Eaglefest, Feb. 11-12, Emory (near
Dallas);
Ocelot Conservation Festival, Feb. 11, Harlingen; Brownsville
International Birding Festival, Feb. 16-19;
El Cielo Birding Festival, Feb. 19-22, (leaves from the Brownsville
Festival), Tamaulipas, Mexico; Texas Chapter of
The Wildilfe
Society, Feb. 16-18, South Padre Island; Celebration of
Whooping Cranes, Port Aransas, Feb. 24-26; See our
Events page for links, more information and other
events you may be interested in attending throughout the year.
Thanks for reading
this, and we hope you'll visit us online or at a show, soon!
Sandy and
Randy
Randy and Sandra Skrei Mock Naturally Curious, Inc 888.258.4687 www.NaturallyCurious.com Nature Education for a Better Life Fine Print: It's still Randy or Sandy who send this message and handle every inquiry and order. We send emails regularly with special offers, alerts on new products and general information. We collect most names through drawings and sign up sheets at professional conferences, nature festivals and other meetings we attend. If you want to be removed from our list, please reply to this email with "REMOVE" in the subject or as your message (we will remove it and let you know that we did, if you have multiple emails, we may need to contact you to find the address we use). If we've duplicated your address, please respond with DUPE and we'll take you off this part of our list. We like it when you just say, "Hi!" too
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