FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Re: Barnacle Goose at Joseph Hensley Park

[The Cummins' Casa <montex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cindy,

Just as we were about ready to give up our search for Barney, we saw you 
and another gentleman stopped ahead of us and you had "the look of a 
birder," you know, happy, active, and constantly looking around while 
making occasional eye-contact with people.  Then you actually led us West 
Virginia people right to Barney. (Actually we're Montana and Texas 
transplants - category 3?)  We can't thank you enough, as well as Paula and 
all the wonderful people sending in their sightings to the list serve that 
got us there.  (Should we also thank Bill Gates and Al Gore for the 
internet?  Never mind...)

It was certainly worth the drive for both seeing an absolutely wonderful 
bird (category 3 sounds good to me...) and meeting such great people.  I do 
believe there was more than one person there who was not already a birder, 
but came because of the newspaper article.  Great!

The "Soooo Happy" people,
Diana and Gary


>Another highlight of my day was, after I left the site I had stopped briefly
>along Eisenhower Ave to see what another birder may have found along Cameron
>Run. A couple stopped behind me and excitedly asked me where the Barnacle
>Goose was. I got back in my car and led them back to the site to make sure
>they saw it! They were soooo happy!
>
>Birders are a great bunch of people!
>
>Cindy Richter
>Annandale, VA

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