[tn-bird] Re: They are NOT a myth!!
- From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:19:49 -0700 (PDT)
Leslie,
Come to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I'll show your full of
Hooded Warblers. Then you can show me some Missouri birds sometime.
How far from Eurasian Tree Sparrows are you?
Charlie
\--- Leslie Keith Koller <lkkoller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Goodness, you are on the wrong list! I trip all over Seaside
> Sparrow every
> time I go to Anahuac NWR, Texas. They are common as dirt! However,
> after 10
> yrs birding, I still haven't got Hooded Warbler! And it even
> breeds here
> (or so the book says....I think it's a conspiracy)....
>
> Also, all peep sandpipers are the same, i don't care what ANYONE
> says! :-)
>
> Leslie Keith Koller
> Sikeston, New Madrid County,
> Down in the Bootheel,
> Missouri
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "K Dean EDWARDS" <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Tennessee Birds" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:17 AM
> Subject: [tn-bird] They are NOT a myth!!
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Wallace is probably going to throw me off the list for all these
> > out-of-state posts so this will be my last for a while. Delete
> > if not interested.
> >
> > But those who know me and know of my long, tireless quest to see
> > that bird which I have long claimed mythical, which I have spent
> > years seeking without success from childhood visits to Huntington
> > Beach State Park in SC to more recent pre-dawn vigils at the
> airport
> > marsh on Dauphin Island in AL, which I have failed to find
> despite
> > advice from such noteworthy individuals as Jeff Wilson, Charles
> > Kennedy and Audrey Mayer, who did her graduate research at UT on
> > this species -- though I suggested (in jest) that she had made
> > the whole thing up because this species just did not exist --
> > those of you may wish to read on, for I have now seen ... a
> > Seaside Sparrow.
> >
> > And, in fact, I have heard dozens of them. I even took a
> "Where's
> > the beef?" photo of the critter sitting in a sea of marsh grasses
> > singing his little song.
> >
> > An early end to testing and that wonderful creation called
> Daylight
> > Saving Time allowed me to make the hour and a half drive from
> > Aberdeen, MD, to Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge near Dover,
> > DE, Tuesday afternoon (16 April 2002). I was able to spend only
> > a couple of hours there but ended up with 51 species plus another
> > dozen in the rest of Delaware. Could have added a lot more if
> > I had brought my scope on this work trip. Well worth the trip
> > and highly recommended... especially if you've spent almost 20
> > years looking for Seaside Sparrows.
> >
> >
> > Dean Edwards
> > Knoxville, TN
> > kde@xxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
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