I once spent half an hour in New Brunswick pushing my way through a
young spruce forest -- you know, the kind where you can't walk five feet
without scratching every inch of exposed skin ... and where you can't
see anything other than the needles right in front of your face -- in
pursuit of what I was sure was some really unusual bird. I did
eventually get a decent look ... at a Northern Parula. Really not a rare
bird in New Brunswick. At all.
I'd forgotten than parulas have a second song.
Walking back out was even more miserable than going in.
Sydney
On 11/2/18 12:46 PM, marytheotokos@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I once stopped the car and left my wife in it to trudge across a muddy field to================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS==============
get a look at a snowy owl ... that turned out to be a pigeon. :-0
From: birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
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Sent: Friday, November 2, 2018 7:54 AM
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Subject: [birdky] Re: Reversal on Stilt Sandpiper at JC Jones Sinkhole Ponds
Good idea, Scott, although I think there is merit to "going public" by sharing
such stories of humility!
I have a few favorites ...
When I first started leading trips years ago, I had an entire caravan of
participants turn around for a banana peel on the highway . . . I thought it
was an interesting yellowish bird that had been hit by a car.
One of the most humiliating was back in the late 1980s when I called one of my mentors,
Dr. Burt Monroe, Jr., about a Nelson's Sparrow I found on my farm. Many of you may not
know that we formerly had an internationally known expert on birds here locally in Dr.
Monroe. He was also my major professor at U of L. At the time this was one of the coolest
birds I had found and I was really wanting to impress Burt with my find. I called him
about the Nelson's Sparrow (Sharp-tailed Sparrow at the time) and he arrived soon after
(most may not know of the excessive speeds at which he often drove!). The bird was still
skulking in a fence line and I proudly got him on it. Then he crushed my ego with a
brief, matter-of-fact reaction ... "well that's a really nice bird, Brainard, but
it's a Le Conte's Sparrow!" Still a rare bird, but I can still to this day recall my
embarrassment at the moment.
And just recently when Clay, Jamie, and I were chasing hurricane birds in
southeast KY, I was convinced we were looking at a Royal Tern perched on a snag
on Martins Fork Lake down in Harlan County. For five minutes, I couldn't make
the bill of the tern look anything but bright orange, and I was imagining a
shaggy crest behind the crown. Thankfully Jamie finally brought me back to
earth by contesting that the bird was way too small; then it took flight and it
suddenly morphed into a typical looking Common.
bpb, Louisville
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From: "Marsh, Scott"
Sent: Nov 2, 2018 7:02 AM
To: "'markdt7@xxxxxxxxxxx'" , "jdsole56@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jdsole56@xxxxxxxxx> "
Cc: "birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> "
Subject: [birdky] Re: Reversal on Stilt Sandpiper at JC Jones Sinkhole Ponds
I see the makings of miss ID anonymous group here
From: birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Tower
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2018 5:08 PM
To: jdsole56@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jdsole56@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [birdky] Re: Reversal on Stilt Sandpiper at JC Jones Sinkhole Ponds
Years ago I misidentified a juvenile dunlin for a stilt sandpiper. It would
have been my life stilt as well. I went maybe another 3 or 4 years before I got
my first true stilt sandpiper. I’ve never heard of anyone else mistaking the
two. I’ve been hiding my “shame” all these years. Thanks for making it ok for
me, Jeff.
Admitted only partially tongue-in-cheek,
Mark Tower
Lexington
On Oct 31, 2018, at 10:42 PM, Jeff Sole <jdsole56@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:jdsole56@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Hey folks! Sorry to report that, after more consultation with BPB this evening,
I mis-ID'd the bird at JC Jones Sinkhole Ponds. It has been determined to be a
juvenile Dunlin still in transitional plumage at this late date in October.
Never claimed to be a shorebird expert! Sorry for the false alarm.
Jeff Sole
Franklin County
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