[texbirds] Re: Bird term for birds you HAVE to see
- From: "Harvey Laas" <hlaas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 21:42:40 -0500
Actually, I like OCD Bird if that means Obsessive Compulsive Diversion.
Harvey Laas
Who never met a groaner he didn't like
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Subject: [texbirds] Re: Bird term for birds you HAVE to see
I see that first sentence as well - I did not mean to, but you could use it
in two ways, as I have had some of those meaning of life experiences in
nature.
I picked the BLB moniker not as a have to see it before death (death is just
the next step in a great adventure IMHO, not in a religious way), but as
something short and snappy!
I could call them my OCD (obsessive compulsive) birds as well! :)
Everyone have a good day, and good birding!
Dave
Dripping Springs
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On May 21, 2013, at 12:42 PM, "Collins, Fred (Commissioner Pct. 3)"
<Fred_Collins@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I found Dave's first sentence most interesting and adjusted it slightly.
I know what a meaning-of-life bird is.
I have been fortunate to have many. The first I can recall was a
Yellow-breasted Chat that "spoke" to me when I was a child. I had an
interment experience with a Sedge Wren that still is fresh in my mind. So
long ago the bird was then known as Short-billed Marsh-wren. But the
ultimate was the Magnificent Quetzal in a cloud forest mist like a god in a
tree. Its head round and its tail looking like the legs of an alien. I have
been fine with dying ever since. It was closely followed by a Horned Guan, a
dinosaur in the forest.
I would like to see other birds for sure. The Kakapo I guess tops the list.
But the immediate bucket list is Flame-colored Tanager, Golden Crowned
Sparrow and Lucy's Warbler all in Texas and all within my sights in a few
days. While I have seen them all before elsewhere seeing them in Texas would
be heaven. So it's hard to know how to conceptualize a bucket list. Those we
see before or after God is there to help me hear and see them.
Fred Collins
(281) 357-5324
Director: Kleb Woods Nature Center
Cypress Top Historical Park Commissioner Steve Radack Harris
County Precinct 3 www.pct3.hctx.net
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Subject: [texbirds] Bird term for birds you HAVE to see
I know what the meaning of life bird is, but is there another phrase for a
life bird you Just HAVE to see once? Say I really really have to see a
cerulean warbler, it would be a life bird but is is something much more than
that to me, more like a bucket list bird.
Is there a term for that?
Thanks!
Dave
Dripping Springs
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