Bird Neighbors

[2] The book combined scientific data with color illustrations, accessible language, and personal experience reflecting Blanchan's joy in nature.

[2] In his introduction, naturalist John Burroughs praised it as "reliable" as well as "written in a vivacious strain by a real bird lover.

[1] The published photographs were also limited by the color printing technologies of the time, and some of the darker birds have been described as looking like "they had been dipped in shoe polish.

His notes, "h'-wa-ker-ee" or "con-quer-ee" (on an ascending scale), are liquid in quality, suggesting the sweet, moist, cool retreats where he nests ... satisfied with cut-worms, grubs, and insects, or with fruit and grain for his food – the blackbird is an impressive and helpful example of how to get the best out of life.

"[6] Bird Neighbors sold over 250,000 copies,[2] helping to make the author the best-selling female nature writer of her time.