Subject: RE: Mystery Bird (fwd)
Date: Aug 24 16:17:07 1995
From: Tom Foote - footet at elwha.evergreen.edu




On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Dennis Paulson wrote:

> >Last night on *Bird Talk* Kort Jungel, who accompanies the Evergreen Advanced
> >Ornithology students on the annual summer trek to the Hart Mt. Refuge in
> >South Central Oregon shared this interesting anecdote..
> >
> . . . a flock of +/- 300 birds covering the road.
> >
> >The date was Aug. 8, altitude +/- 4550 feet and it was late in
> >the afternoon.. it had been hot during the day...
> >You now know as much as I do about the incident..
> >
> >Care to venture a guess?
>
> Well, I bombed out completely on the first *mystery bird*, so why not try again?
>
> A bright flash of light in my head, the fog clears and what emerges from it?
>
> A Cliff Swallow. I guess that has to be my guess.

Absolutely correct!! that puts you right up there with Scott Richardson
and the other ace birders...

Doggone it, Dennis...we'll just have to wait until you go away again
before we do the next quiz...

Tom