Fellow Birders,

It is with a very sad heart that I forward the following message from Texbird.
Smitty's Spotted Owls will miss his protective concern that we "birders" do
not overly disturb them and harass them with tapes for a tick mark. (Events
that have already happened since Smitty lost his ability to make the climb to
the owls' territory last year.) He wanted birders to enjoy their beauty and
appreciated them for the special thing of nature that they are. To honor
Smitty, let us all respect his wishes when we travel to see the Spotted Owls
in Sheelite Canyon: No tapes, staying on the trial, and not doing anything to
disturb them unnecessarily.

>Texbirders:
>Maybe this isn't the proper place for this, but I feel many of you would
>want to know. I just picked up from the Tucson RBA that Robert T. Smith,
>whom we all knew as Smitty died August 30. He thought that the Spotted
>Owls in Sheelite Canyon were his children and showed them with pride to
>thousands of us.
>J. W. Sifford
>Ft. Worth Audubon


Great birding and find that next lifer,

John (One of Birders2)
John + Irma = 2, we are birders, too.

John C. LeVine Birders2 at aol.com Los Angeles, CA

The problem with Modern Man is he can no
longer see the stars at night through his city lights.
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A thought on a moonless night in Big Bend National Park 4/30/97

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