On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Eric Greenwood wrote:

> >
> >Arlene Sopranzetti wrote:
> >
> >> If I go
> >> "birding" with my husband, he hikes briskly on the paths
> Reminds me of a trip to Costa Rica with a semi bird watcher friend. He
> pounding up the road, me doing a slow walk and then running to catch up. He
> rushing under the wires oblivious to the Violaceous Trogon watching him, me
> gleefully watching the bird and not daring to call him back to avoid
> disturbing it.

This is a thread we had some time last summer. You might want be interested
in requesting the digest that contains the related posts. Maybe Dan
Victor could help.

The posts were from me, Dennis P and others on the relative merits of
sitting for long periods of time in one place as opposed to *running and
ticking* off your list.

A British naturalist, D.A. Orton, has 2 interesting books he's
written/monographs he's written (among others) by sitting patiently and
watching."The Merlins of the Welsh Marches" and "The Hawkwatcher"..if you can
locate them, you might enjoy reading them.

Tom