I laughed as soon as the link opened - the right-hand photo on the ABA blog page is of our own Tom Wood on the Old Marsh Rd. at Horicon! Congrats, Tom! Peter Fissel Madison WI On 1/13/2012 12:06 PM, Chris West wrote: > Hey everyone, > Dan Peak and I drove down to Chattanooga, TN on Jan 1st to see the Hooded > Crane. Awesome bird to see in the US. It took us 9 hours to find it. That was > the hardest I've ever worked to see an ABA vagrant. > The fine people at the ABA have asked around, done some digging and come up > with some very interesting info about the bird that is nicely summarized in > the recent post on the ABA blog: > http://blog.aba.org/2012/01/hooded-crane-tennessee.html > > Certainly adds a new twist and makes this a very tantalizing bird for ABA > listers. > > Enjoy! > > Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County Interpretive Naturalist Mississippi > Explorer Cruises > http://mississippiexplorer.com/chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://swallowtailedkite.blogspot.com/ > http://www.nabirding.com/http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto > > "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first > material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire > the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things > breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a > one can be again." > > (From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906) > > #################### > You received this email because you are subscribed to the Wisconsin Birding > Network (Wisbirdn). > To UNSUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: > //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn > To set DIGEST or VACATION modes, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: > //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn > Visit Wisbirdn ARCHIVES at: //www.freelists.org/archives/wisbirdn > > #################### You received this email because you are subscribed to the Wisconsin Birding Network (Wisbirdn). To UNSUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn To set DIGEST or VACATION modes, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn Visit Wisbirdn ARCHIVES at: //www.freelists.org/archives/wisbirdn