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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 06:23:51 PST
From: Jack Bowling <jbowling at direct.ca>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: 819 Miles driving with 87 Species garnished.
Message-ID: <E0yRGYW-0005YR-00 at edam.direct.ca>

** Reply to note from tweeters at u.washington.edu on Mon, 20 Apr 1998
00:07:55 PDT

Denny wrote -

> I don't know off the top of my head of any birders who have a "mounting"
> list though we comment occasionally about getting a new species on our
> "shit" list. The best species on my "mounting" list would be American
> Kestrel. This week I saw two starlings in the act and wished I could have
> driven over them, sort of an auto-coitus interruptus.

Add Merlin and Starling this week in my neighbourhood....

- Jack


On a May trip to Florida, my brother and I were searching for Mangrove
Cuckoo on Key Largo. We heard a cuckoo and immediately spied another bird
on a tree limb high up, but next to the road. As we watched our "life"
Mangrove Cuckoo, we ascertained it was a female due to the fact a male flew
her and mounted her before our very eyes.

Tim

Tim Shelmerdine
Lake Oswego/Aurora, Oregon
shelmert at mail.clackesd.k12.or.us