Obviously, Deborah is no dummy.

At 05:52 PM 10/15/97 -0700, Deborah Wisti-Peterson wrote:
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>there were some things that i didn't like, however. his humor was, at
>times, annoyingly silly (i admit that i don't have much patience with
>"stupid humor"), he tends to repeat information from one section to the
>next (which made me wonder how much info was actually crammed into those
>hundreds of pages, and how much had been repeated), and he did not
>proof-read this book very well since i found one error during my brief
>skim (his english rendition of the golden-crowned sparrow song was
>incorrectly described as his rendition for the white-crowned sparrow
>song in a later section of the book -- makes me wonder if he was even
>awake when he wrote that because these two species' songs are difficult
>to mix up, even for beginners).
>
>i do have one major peeve, though: he didn't even mention in his
>bird-watching etiquette section to pack all your trash out with you,
>and to at least check with your fellow birders (and group leader, if
>there is one) before lighting up a cigarette (or, horrors! a cigar).
>he takes great pain to warn birders to *ask* the group leader before
>*pish*ing, yet he doesn't even mention the smoking and littering
>problems of birding. (these are, in my opinion, more egregious crimes
>than *pish*ing. and of course, what to do with those nice cigarette
>butts ... ?)
>
>anyway, that is my $2.95-worth regarding my skim through _bird
>watching for dummies._

Michael B. Brown
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