Subject: RE: Birding Across the USA
Date: Oct 2 23:34:58 1997
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweets,

Don Baccus wrote:

>An old girlfriend of mine still hits Crane Creek nearly every year, and
>seems to think that it is, as you say, about as good as better known
>spots like Pt. Pelee.

As a kid in the late '50's and early 60's (just after the invention of the
telegraph, as I recall, haff-kaff) I used to go to Pelee in May: that was
just as the declines were barely beginning. It was worth *every* column inch
of hype that's ever been typed about it. Can't speak for the other site, but
I suspect it's like two guys facing off in a "Tastes Great!" "Less
Filling!"-type discussion. We're talking the same birds and a separation of
sites of about twenty-thirty miles. Think of the opposite sides of the
Strait of Juan de Fuca and whether one's better than the other. Sometimes
yes, sometimes no. Sometimes flyovers and no birds, other times headwinds
and the place is nuts.

Michael Price We aren't flying...we're falling with style!
Vancouver BC Canada -Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
mprice at mindlink.net