On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Migratory Birds wrote:
> -"Avid wildlife observers go to the [Rio Grande] Valley while casual
> birders go to Nebraska."
>
No--real birders get their life Whooping Cranes in Nebraska, not on some
boat in Texas (granted you miss the first three or four, but it's funner,
and then there's always those fast-moving blizzards--of course, when I
called my mom last night, she said the snow had finally melted enough that
she found last Sunday's paper)

:) RK

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