Subject: Neighborhood Sharpie
Date: Nov 12 16:44:58 2002
From: Jack Kintner - jack.kintner at verizon.net


Just out trying to decide whether or not to harass a bunch of starlings
that have taken up a roost in my neighbors Arbor Vitae hedge when the
latest little post-frontal sun break came rolling by on a stiff
southerly, a male Sharpie kind of surfing through the yard on it about
five to ten feet overhead. So I guess I'll leave them alone, although a
starling's a lot for a Sharpie, but who knows what else may be lying in wait?

Also, tomorrow I'm going to interview Don Burgess, director of the new
Environmental Learning Center (ELC) being built at the site of the old
Diablo Lake Resort by the North Cascades Institute. Some of you probably
already know him.

This center is a major effort, on the scale of (but smaller than) the UW
Marine lab at Friday Harbor. The 16-unit complex will open in about a year
and will have a variety of programs, some academic in orientation and
others for the general public.

My story on this will appear in the second section ("local and state") of
this Friday's Bellingham Herald, and I'll also post the URL here for the
on-line version. Since Burgess's scientific background is in ornithology I
thought it might be of more than passing interest. His e-mail address is
don_burgess at ncascades.org and he says he'd like to connect with local
birders, especially those in the lower mainland.

Jack Kintner <jack.kintner at verizon.net> Blaine