A Supremely Entertaining Book

Lately I’ve been reading the book “A Supremely Bad Idea” by Luke Dempsey, and it’s a very funny and human perspective on the world of birding. As a beginning birder, I could relate to the earlier chapters of the book when Dempsey describes how he got sucked into the world of birding. It seems as if, even when all else in life was falling apart, he could fall back on this birding passion as a relief or source of respite and stability. I wish I had something like that myself, I don’t know whether it would be birding or something else, but life does often seem quite frustrating and confusing at my age.

I skipped around a bit and read the chapter on Michigan, being biased toward my own home state. It was very funny to hear his comedy musings on the Kirtland’s Warbler, and even funnier to hear him talk about places I had already been. No small shock was to read that when he and his friends went to Tawas, they stayed at the Bambi Motel, the same motel I stayed at for the Kirtland’s Warbler Festival this past spring.

I still have more of the book to read, but it’s highly entertaining, and I recommend it to any birder who needs more birding humor in their lives, because this book is priceless.

Posted by the novice on 11/20 at 05:35 PM