> This also brings to mind Charlie Wright's e-mail last year in which he said
> he had gotten his jinx bird, Black Swift, off his back. Charlie isn't even
> old enough to have a "jinx bird". To qualify as a jinx bird, a birder has
> to have been chasing a bird for at least ten years. For Charlie to have a
> jinx bird,he would have had to have started birding when he was two.
> Really, now, can a two-year-old be a serious birder? Not by my defination.

Now wait a minute, Denny, shouldn't we use a criterion of the *percentage of
your life* that you've been searching? In that case, Charlie's searching for
three years would be a QUARTER of his life. Try to match that! :)

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== hummer at isomedia.com