Birding is a great way to engage with nature safely, relieve anxiety, and otherwise slow down. Download your Birding 101 guide here!
- Do not disturb the birds’ habitats - you are an observer.
- Use appropriate gear! Binoculars, a field guide, and a notebook should suffice for beginners.
- For those with mobile devices, try the Audubon Bird Guide App for iPhones and Androids!
- Find a quiet spot to sit and observe. Your backyard can offer quite a selection!
- Try different times of day.
- Find other birders in the community!
CHECKOUT THESE LIBRARY MATERIALS FOR YOUR BIRDING ADVENTURES:
- Books on Birding are available on Overdrive/Libby
- Check out Colorado State Parks Pass
- Try one of our databases or suggested websites
- Books in our nonfiction collection with the number 598.07234
Gardening in the high prairie can be difficult, so the staff at High Prairie Library have created this handy year-long guide to making the most out of your gardening efforts!
Check out these stats and our top title of 2020 below.
- Physical material checkouts: 1,845,866
- Additions to physical collection:18,000 titles and 58,000 items, plus 15,570 magazines
- OverDrive:
- Checkouts: 2,430,575
- Patrons: 61,278 patrons; an increase of 22%
- Freegal:
- Song Downloads: 76,007
- Songs Streamed: 248,986
- Kanopy: 58,201 videos streamed
- Hoopla: 40,813 checkouts, movies and television mostly
- New cardholders during 2020: 26,215
Top 10 Adult Titles
- The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The Guardians by John Grisham
- Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- The Giver of Stars: a Novel by Jojo Moyes
- A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci
- The Dutch House: a Novel by Ann Patchett
- Long Range by C.J. Box
Top 10 Young Adult Titles
- All the Impossible Things by Lindsay Lackey
- Ranger's Apprentice by John Flanagan
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Top 10 Children's Titles
- The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA by Brenda Woods
- A Long Walk to Water: A Novel by Linda Sue Park
- The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K Rowling
- Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
- Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever by Rachel Renée Russell
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Narwhal on a Sunny Night by Mary Pope Osborne
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: the Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney