----- Original Message -----
From: Jock
To: LevineB at bsd405.org ; tina at di.org ; christyrae at hotmail.com
Cc: Tweeters
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:26 AM
Subject: Re: TRaveling scope


Calling all Tweeters:

My wife and I took our 3 and 5 year old sons to the Space Needle last weekend and while at Seattle Center we observed a beautiful red-headed bird with a woodpecker-type bill. I consulted a couple of bird books when we got home (Ballard) and found that it was a Red-breasted Sapsucker. Are they very common around here? It looked like the Northern variant. Would this be a visitor, a resident at the Center, or maybe an escapee? Has anyone else seen it? I happened to have my bins with me for Space Needle viewing and got an excellent look at him from <8' away. He was pecking at the bark of a large shrub. Had dark bill and feet, narrow white moustache and a really beautiful red head - nice. His bill was more curved than that shown in my copy of Sibley. Anyway, thanks in advance for any responses.

Jock and family.
----- Original Message -----
From: Levine, Barron
To: tina at di.org ; christyrae at hotmail.com
Cc: Tweeters
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:00 AM
Subject: RE: TRaveling scope


No problem fo' me as well going Seattle-San-Jose-San Jose Del
Cabo-Mazatlan-SF-Seattle. Carry on was looked at but not bothered

Barry Levine
Seattle
-----Original Message-----
From: Tina Klein-Lebbink [mailto:tina at di.org]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:36 PM
To: christyrae at hotmail.com
Cc: Tweeters
Subject: Re: TRaveling scope




"C. Anderson" wrote:

> Has anyone carried a scope and/or tripod onto an airline recently? Any

> security concerns or other problems I should know about? (Domestic
> flight)

Liz Copeland and myself both brought our scopes with us on a recent trip
to Texas. We wrapped the tripods and put those in our checked luggage
and carried the scopes and bins in our carry on's. We also had some of
our birding books in there as well, we told the security people what we
had and they certainly had a look at it, but we had no problem carrying
them on.

Tina Klein-Lebbink
Bellevue W