Field Notes Birds and Trees of North America 3-Pack

Field Notes’ 64th Quarterly Limited Edition for Fall 2024 is “The Birds and Trees of North America” Edition, featuring the artwork of Rex Brasher (1869–1960).

Rex Brasher’s artistic talent, love of nature, technical expertise, and persistence offer an inspiring story that should be better known by anyone with an interest in birds, nature, or art. From a young age, Brasher committed to visiting all of America’s bird species in their natural habitats. He spent a lifetime traveling, collecting notes and drawings, writing personal, insightful descriptions, and painting and re-painting birds.

By the late 1920s, Brasher — nearly 60 years old — was finally satisfied with his paintings, and set out to publish a collection of his work. Unhappy with color printing options at the time, Brasher had the paintings reproduced in black-and white, then hand-colored all 87,000 pages of the nearly 100 sets of twelve volumes of The Birds and Trees of North America, which he completed in 1932.

Field Notes has carefully reproduced six of Brasher’s colorful illustrations on two 3-Packs of Field Notes Ruled Memo Books.

“Pack A” features:
Rocky Mountain and Mexican Screech Owls
Blue Jay
Brewer Sparrow

“Pack B” features:
Pine Grosbeak
Baltimore Oriole
Sulphurbelly Flycatcher

Sales of this edition will help the Rex Brasher Association open Brasher’s Kent, Connecticut property to the public as a museum and nature area dedicated to the artist’s life and work.

Specs

• Three softcover notebooks
• Dimensions: 3-1/2” × 5-1/2”
• Cover: Mohawk Via Felt 100#C “Pure White,” with a 4-color application of process-color soy-based inks
• Innards: Domtar Lynx Opaque Ultra 60#T
• Ruled lines: 1/4” (6.4mm)
• Printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.
• Limited Edition of 18,000 Pack A and 18,000 Pack B