[wisb] Re: Spark Bird
- From: Emily Wilson <emily_howe_wilson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:12:56 -0800 (PST)
Thirty-three years ago in the Everglades we saw a large white blob in a tree,
which we identified as a White Pelican. It just sat there. The branch drooped
lower and lower to the water. Eventually a smaller white blob sploshed from
the pelican into the water. Thus relieved of some weight, the branch sprang
back up, pelican and all. And the whole process started over...
This showed us that there were actually birds large enough to see, and that
they could actually stay still long enough to see. It also started the first
of my husband's many lists, the Poop List.
Emily Wilson
emily_howe_wilson@xxxxxxxxx
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> De : andy gruse <andygruse@xxxxxxxxx>
>À : "wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Envoyé le : Lundi 23 janvier 2012 12h17
>Objet : [wisb] Re: Spark Bird
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>It's funny that this topic came up. I'm asked all the time why I like birds.
>To my friends who don't "bird", they often look blank when I try to tell them
>and I'm sure they are thinking, while I explain, about what is on television
>or what their next meal is going to be. But the spark bird is simple. My
>mother asked if I wanted to go to the beach with her. She was going to look
>for sandpipers. At age 12 I was more interested in playing baseball but since
>no one was around, I tagged along. It was July 10th, 1980, sitting a the end
>of the lighthouse pier jutting out into Lake Michigan in Michigan City,
>Indiana, hot and sunny day, waves gently splashing onto my legs, five dark and
>tall sandpipers were sitting on the jetty. My mom was passing the
>binoculars to me and taking them back to see what details we could see when as
>she leafed through her Peterson guide I looked up and saw 4 American Avocets
>in a diamond pattern fly past. The
>image has never left my mind. Neither did the excitement. As you can imagine
>with only one set of binoculars trying to both look where they went, long
>disappeared as I tried to describe what I saw, pretty much at the time it was
>"orange head, long bill and black and white all over". Fortunately they flew
>past again with my mom seeing them then. That hooked me. The five other
>sandpipers turned out to be 4 Willets and 1 Marbled Godwit. That was a great
>day. Thanks for the memories!
>
>Andy Gruse
>Neenah,
>Winnebago County
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