Sorry, Jay-bird, along with (I think) many others, I agree with Liz.
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From: "Jay K" <azure.jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <VA-Bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:21 AM
Subject: [Va-bird] Late Yellowthroat in Arlington
Hi Everyone,
Before I give some sighting details, I’d like to thank all of you who have
sent me emails off-list supporting me after receiving that bit of invective
from “Liz” the other day. I truly appreciate your words, though I assure
you that that type of thing hardly bothers me. For whatever reason, the
occasional person finds it necessary to try to discredit someone in a public
forum, and I certainly won’t speculate about the true reasoning behind that
or what might be going on in someone’s life that would cause such strong
feelings, especially since I have never heard of or met this person. That
said, many have refound many of the good birds I have reported over the
months/years so I need not concern myself with someone who merely attempts
to minimize the effort of time and energy I regularly put into my birding
exploits. At the earlier request of the moderators, please let’s not create
discussion resulting from my words here.
Back to the birds! I got out just after sunrise this AM at Fort Smith Park
in Arlington and (re?)found a COMMON YELLOWTHROAT at the same place I had
one on October 26. It was getting late for northern VA then, but this is
quite late from info I have. It's behind the bird stream just off the trail
that enters the woods. Also present was my first-of-season FOX SPARROW
feeding below the large cedar tree near the stream. There were good numbers
of all species around, likely increasing following yesterday's front.
And below is my entirely fictitious list of birds noted this morning! LOL!
;-)
Jay Keller,
Arlington
Rock Pigeon 8
Mourning Dove 17
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 8
American Crow 3
Carolina Chickadee 21
Tufted Titmouse 7
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 8
Carolina Wren 4
Winter Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
American Robin 165
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 24
Cedar Waxwing 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler 12
Common Yellowthroat 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 11
White-throated Sparrow 23
Dark-eyed Junco 16
Northern Cardinal 13
House Finch 16
American Goldfinch 18
House Sparrow 19
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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