Hi Dotty, Neat fly. I'm not sure I've ever seen one. I'll have to check around my flowers and see if there are any in my yard. I did notice that one of...
HEEeellllooo Kathy! What have they done to you? Are you still alive and kicking? Grunt every once and while so we know you are OK. Abbie...
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Aug 1, 2004 1:42 pm
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Grunt - I'm still here! I've been lurking and enjoying the usual banter. I check my email during the occasional study break. Actually, last week I was able...
Yesterday Joan and I took a trip to Great Gull Island with the New Haven Bird Club. Fearing traffic, we got up early and made our traditional stop at Curly's...
Kathy, It sounds like you are having a ball...and I was worried that you were buried in books!!! I have been to Rams Head to see some of my favorites also. I...
amberina@...
Aug 1, 2004 9:43 pm
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It sounds like a great day, Richard. I will be waiting to enjoy the website you do. So, what did you have for breakfast? Abbie...
amberina@...
Aug 1, 2004 9:50 pm
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--Original Message Text--- From: amberina@... Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 17:50:36 EDT It sounds like a great day, Richard. I will be waiting to enjoy the ...
Art, thanks for posting this. I hope governments around the world (most of all our own) will be willing to step up to the challenge of protecting the...
Sounds like a great day, KR. I love it when birding and history can be combined. Cheri/FL "Richard L. Becker" <rlbecker@...> wrote: Yesterday Joan and...
Hi Richard, Sounds like a nice trip for you and Joan yesterday. I don't think we have seen a Great Cormorant so that would be a lifer for us. It was great that...
Dotty, Still sorry I misse y'all in FL when I was there. Speaking of the St.Pete aea, is the Merganser still at Honeymoon Island? there was a really late...
Hi Ed, I'm sorry that we missed you too. I didn't hear anything about the merganser at Honeymoon Is., but we were in CT for a few weeks around the time you...
Hi Dotty I guess it is easier to get Great Cormorants up here than down in Florida. I haven't had too many of them though. This was easy to id as I saw the...
Hi Richard, Hank checked our visys list and found that we have seen Great Cormorant, once in Nova Scotia and twice in Australia. But not at all in the U.S. It...
I wouldn't have thought that the Great Cormorant was that cosmopolitan. My Fork-tailed Flycatcher in Massachusetts came during a period of chasing rareties....
Yes, Richard, that was a spectacular month for you. Wish we could have more like that. Dotty ... From: Richard L. Becker To: songstar@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
All the best Clare - We'll miss you. ... Dear richard, please remove me from the songstar list. At least for an indefinate period. If you can, tell everyone...
Richard, Wasn't that the year that the book The Big Year covered? I vaguely recall the three birders chasing the fork-tailed flycatcher and definitely the...
Richard, I also recall the Whiskered Tern sighting. Didn't you make that attempt several times? After I read the reports of several people racing to BH to see...
amberina@...
Aug 3, 2004 4:22 pm
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Most of you folks get most excited at seeing Whiskered Terns, ..personally the shaving habits of Terns do not matter to me that much, ..i get most excited when...
Folks, Just spent a week at the 2004 AirVenture at Oshkosh, WI. What a great show! Never saw so many airplanes in my life! Also, the air shows were...
Glenn B. Barlow
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Aug 4, 2004 7:20 pm
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Thanks for the report Glenn. Getting a lifer while BBQing is great. Chuck/NJ ... From: Glenn B. Barlow [mailto:gbarlow@...] Sent: Wednesday, August 04,...
Pierce, Chuck
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Aug 4, 2004 8:26 pm
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..any other time someone suggests you "get a life" and it might have a derogatory meaning, but just add one little letter "r" and send it to a birder and it...
Hi Glenn, Glad you had a successful trip. Lifers must be getting harder for you. You may have to move to some exotic place to keep getting them. Abbie...
amberina@...
Aug 4, 2004 9:04 pm
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<volunteers to stand in shrubs locally for Glenn an hold birding manuals open to appropriate pages for *exotics which Glenn can then *sight through his binocs>...
Hi Glenn, Congratulations on your 4 lifrs. I know you like to get some eastern birds. Sounds like you had fun too! Dotty ... From: Glenn B. Barlow To:...
Glenn, congrats on the lifers! Chimney Swift is one of my favorites... Cele "Pierce, Chuck" <cpierce@...> wrote: Thanks for the report Glenn. Getting a...
Glenn, I have been trying to talk my Wife into allowing me to go since 1980 with no luck. I'm sooo green with envy. Add in the life birds, and I think I am...
Thanks for everyone's comments. You are right--it is getting harder to get a life bird nowadays. However, on Saturday I have an opportunity to go after a...
Glenn B. Barlow
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Aug 6, 2004 5:59 am
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Wowwieyowwie Glenn (to borrow a phrase from Abbie - VBG) a White-tailed Ptarmigan!!!!! Hope you go and we get to hear all about it! Cele "Glenn B. Barlow"...
