Hi Tweeters

James West says:

(snip)
>colleague was stunned by their beauty and delicacy, exclaimed that he had
>never seen such unusual little birds before and asked if they weren't
>something exotic. The colleague has spent most of his 60+ years in the
>Seattle, with a few in Illinois and a few in DC. The birds were....
>Bushtits.

After observing non-birders for the last couple decades, I'm forced to the
conclusion that they use their eyes mainly to avoid walking into
brightly-lit walls.

Wonderful, though, to hold the door into nature open for them, when they
learn one of the things that eyes are *for*.

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
michael_price at mindlink.bc.ca