[tn-bird] Re: They are NOT a myth!!
- From: "Leslie Keith Koller" <lkkoller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:22:21 -0500
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!!
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>
> 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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