[va-bird] Okay, no puns this time: Stop the verbal bloodlust!

My dear fellow birders, BOTH those of you who hunt and those of you who 
don't,

Peace begins at home. Verbal savagery hurts too. Obviously, it doesn't 
directly result in death. But what I see at this point is (a) wildly 
off-topic for a birding list, and (b), as I said before, unlikely to 
change the minds of either side. As talkative as I am (I'm secretly not an 
English professor at all, but a five-foot corvid), I still don't think I 
could ever convince a hunter to stop hunting, especially by yelling at 
the person.

Tomorrow is a holiday that partly involves stuffing ourself silly, on bird 
or tofurkey as we choose, and partly involves being thankful for things. I 
am thankful that this list exists, so people can post sightings and 
discuss, you know, BIRDS. I am thankful for the birds themselves, and for 
adding to my life list this year, and for getting to spend time with the 
NVBC at Sky Meadows.

So could we please get back to birds? I'm not a hunter myself, but nobody 
who does happen to hunt is going to get turned away from my tofurkey-laden 
table.

Fiat pax,

Gwyn McVay
Fairfax

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"Nobody gets paid for being a poemer."
   -- Bucky the cat, "Get Fuzzy," 6/30/03


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