[va-richmond-general] Re: Thrasher article

Hi Kate,

Including that article in the Thrasher without your approval would not be OK 
for me to do, so I replaced it with another article when I didn't hear from you 
before going to print.  I wouldn't run anything like that without your 
approval. The file had to go out yesterday so the issues can make it to people 
as early in May as possible.

Would you be interested in writing something for the August/September issue 
that could really be whatever you want? Caroline's idea was that it be about 
your experiences and feelings/ideas or whatever while seeing or identifying 
birds for the first time, but it could be whatever you come up with. The 
deadline for that issue is not until July 15th so there is plenty of time. You 
could just make some notes as you see things and maybe write individual 
experiences, then combine them into an article later. It could even be for 
October if you want to wait that long. Your writing style is different and 
fresh, and that would make interesting reading.

Let me know.

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: katya 
To: va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:06 AM
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Thrasher article


Al,

I would have preferred that you had run this by me first.

Kate


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Al Warfield" <warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:  Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:52:08 -0400

>Katie,
>
>I have an article that I wrote from a couple of your posts on the listserve. 
>Caroline Coe suggested that I ask you to write something from the perspective 
>of a new birder with lots of energy for learning about birds. I might have 
>done that but there was not much time before the issue had to go to press, so 
>I just wrote it myself from what you wrote - that was where Caroline got the 
>idea anyway. (Maybe you could do that after awhile - just keep a record of 
>when you see new birds and what the circumstances are, and your writing style 
>will do the rest.) The text of the article is below. There is also a picture 
>that I took of you while we were doing the ivy work at JR Park. It's not a 
>great picture, but it's not that bad either. You are looking up from using the 
>pruning saw on the ivy. The expression is not bad. If you have a problem with 
>me using the article and/or picture I'll find something else. I need to send 
>this out tomorrow (Friday) ASAP in the morning, so I hope you can
  get back to me by then.
>
>Thanks, Al Warfield
>
>Text of article:
>
>New Birds for a New Birder
>
>This morning I had my first new-to-me birds here on my deck - two Brown 
>Thrashers pecking away at the suet no one has seemed interested in except for 
>a Carolina Wren every once in a while. I dreamt this morning that I saw a bird 
>out there who I didn't recognize, and sure enough the thrashers looked pretty 
>much like I saw in my dream. It occurred to me that I heard the bird yesterday 
>and in my waking mind assumed that it was a mockingbird, but months ago, I 
>studied one of the "Birding by Ear" CDs, and also had a pretty good idea of 
>what a Brown Thrasher looked like, although I had never knowingly seen one. My 
>sleeping mind evidently has it together. I've tried listening to the CD when I 
>was doing other things, and I think I am going to start doing that again. 
>Something definitely sunk in. This excites me, because I know I really did 
>learn something.
>
>      Katie Holzback 
>
>
>
>
 

 
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