After hearing from member JamesD last year that the prices for printing customized calendars were better the earlier you did it, I started selecting my 2025 calendar pics around October 1st (although JamesD suggested August). After picking out my 13 pics (includes cover) I shopped Mixbook and Shutterfly. You might recall that I had been using Shutterfly for several years but got tired of trying to guess which promo codes gave me the best price so I switched to Mixbook. I got a good price but there was a problem with the printed versions – if a date had both a holiday (i.e. Washington’s Birthday) and a birthday I hand entered (i.e. Dad’s birthday) that fell on the same date it overlapped the two. To my surprise the same thing happened this year when I created our family calendar using Mixbook. A half-hour of chat text support finally fixed it. But the price was very high – $28 each. I contacted the bulk printing department for a better price and they came back with a price of $17 each, plus shipping. I then entered the same pictures and birthdates in Shutterfly and applied a 50% off code and a free shipping code and got the calendars for $16 each. Mixbook even came back a third time with a better price but I had had it by then trying to “negotiate” my best price so I put through the order with Shutterfly. The printed calendars came four days later and they look great! Let me know if you did a calendar and what kind of quality and pricing you got.
You’ve seen many of the pictures I used for the 2025 calendar here on GreatBirdPics.com but four of them are new. I’ll share the other eight pics in future Monday posts.
This Purple Sandpiper was found on the channel of Jetty Park, Canaveral, Florida. We’ve chased these in Illinois and Michigan but never had such good looks at one before.
This Guira Cuckoo was sitting on a fence surrounding a vineyard that we passed through the Tunuyán Department of Mendoza Argentina. It is the nuttiest cuckoo I’ve ever seen!
This Ruddy-capped Nightingale Thrush was hopping along the driveway of the Poás Volcano Lodge.
This Slaty Flowerpiercer’s beak has a small hook on the end of it, presumably to help rip the flower open so the bill can fit inside and extract the nectar.
More 2025 Warner Family Calendar pics next Monday.
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