John James Audubon

When I started doing entries on the birds at Honeymoon Lake, I discovered that Audubon did much more that paint. He also wrote about the birds he painted. These chapters are taken from his Ornithological Biography, Vol 1, Vol II, Vol III, and Vol IV published between 1831 and 1838. Not only did he write about the birds but he inserted chapters "with occasional descriptions of the scenery and manners of the land which has furnished the objects that engage your attention." He saw the wilderness of the early Union give way to farms and civilization. I will be putting up the birds of Honeymoon Lake that Audubon wrote about as well as all his "Delineations of American Scenery and Manners."