Hello Ed and tweeters,
I am glad we talked about this issue. I do learned so much about Spiders
which i mostly ignored and din't know how bad there could be. The diversity
on some subjects is always of interest. and if it is not, you can delete.
Latly i got deep in to Dragonflies and it is the most fascination hobby i
ever encountered.On some occasian i mention it on tweeters no one rejected
this messages sofar.Infact i had positive respond sent to me. That dosn't
say i give up birding, some time i do both. You need good weather for
finding Dragonflies and is not always in favour for the Dragonflies.This
weekend going to be good. Patrick is birding with Vicki and Mark Biltz try
to finding 175 species for there 24 hour BIRDATHON. I am going to be relaxt
doing my thing.This a short note Patrick had no time to write up.
There was a WESTERN KINGBIRD on the Fircrest oframp on HYW on the little
pond flycatching.
Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma


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From: Ed Newbold <newboldwildlife at netscape.net>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: I brake for predation
Date: Friday, May 21, 1999 11:14 PM

Dear Tweeters,
Driving down 15th South on Beacon Hill saw a tussle and put on the brakes
in
time to see a crow finally getting a good hold on an adult House Sparrow,
then
fly off with it. Another Sparrow on the scene protested loudly but
couldn?t
do anything about it. Also, another NASHVILLE WARBLER today in the yard.
On another topic, it kind of saddens me that anyone wants to take the
politics, and even the contention, out of tweeters, although I?m all for
kindness. Obviously bird sightings constitute the backbone and the
attraction of Tweeters. But there?s an issue of intellectuality here: Are
our interests broad and wide-ranging or only narrow and limited? I learned
a
lot I never knew about spiders one day on Tweeters, and would be the poorer
if
someone had thought, ?This is a bird line, so I better not post a long
discussion about spiders on it?? Secondly, you can take the bird out of
the
politics, but you can?t take the politics out of the bird, or something
like
that. John James Audubon was so depressed about the destruction of the
environment that he never took his last trip out west. Ted Parker worried
that he wasn?t being a pure naturalist, but eventually decided he had to
offer
his birding ability in service to the cause of environmentalism. You can
and
probably should argue endlessly about what kind of environmentalism is best
but if you care about birds, I?m sorry, you?ve already waded pretty deep
into
the swirling waters of politics.
-Shade-coffee drinking Eddy Newbold, Seattle
(newboldwildlife at netscape.net)


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