In the great Literacy Nanaimo Bookstore this week found for $8 a nice 1940 copy of P.A. Taverner's "Birds of Canada" with 87 colour plates by Canadian Allan Brooks who lived on Okanagan Lake/wintered in Courtenay. His images appear all over including the big "Birds of America" of that era from which these magnificent crows are taken. In Vernon (Red Lane's "Geeksville") there is an Allan Brooks Nature Centre.