Subject: A lurker's guess (fwd)
Date: Aug 8 21:25:36 1995
From: Tom Foote - footet at elwha.evergreen.edu




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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 17:22:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Richardson <richasar at dfw.wa.gov>
To: Tom Foote <footet at elwha.evergreen.edu>
Subject: A lurker's guess

> > Now the only species that come to mind get
> > censored by my internal logic system. Tanager, Flycatcher (P-s, not
> > Hammond's), and MacG's Warbler... I look forward to the real answer.
>
> Okay, so which of this cluster of speculatives is your *guess*?

Can't outsneak you, can I? Well, to be honest, the MacGillivray's came to
mind first (or seventh, if you count the others), but I think the Western
Tanager is a more likely candidate. So, my guess: Western Tanager.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
yup!!

Well, what do you know...Olympia's own Scott Richardson wins...as you can
see, he made me nervous with his response, so I tried, to no avail, to buy
a little time by forcing him to choose one of the three...little did I know
he would choose the correct bird!! Great work, Scott!! Boy, is Dennis
gonna be ripped he missed this one..^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Needless to say, we'll all be tipping our hats to Scott from now on since
all of us missed it!! Ace Birder award to Scott...

and,
in the grand style of the bank manager in the W.C Fields flick
*The Bank Dick* when he thanked Fields for foiling the bank robbery..

*Permit me to offer you a hearty hand clasp!*

This was great fun...thank you George Walter for the information. And, I
received from George today a breakdown of the birds found in the plots
which I'll post soon along with the final summary...

sniff, sob....it's over, folks.. '-(

Tom