Maybe he'll start a class that we can all sign up to take. :-)

Bruce Jones
Shoreline, WA

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> Wow!
>
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> Rebecca Galloway
> Northgate, Seattle
>
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:48:32 -0800
> From: Rob Sandelin
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: [Tweeters] Karma again, or maybe somebody likes my teaching
>
> Todays lesson was on birds of prey. Went through some slides of the major
> types then went over a few blocks to the local park and manmade lake for
> some general bird watching, not a chance of seeing a hawk in this place
> usually. So after looking at the ducks, a kestrel flies overhead, turns
> around, then lands on a fence post in perfect view of my students. Not a bad
> day, but wait there's more. As the Kestrel flies off and we start walking
> there is a rustle in the blackberries and out hops a Sharpie, with a song
> sparrow in the talons. It poses on a small bush, not 20 feet away (nice
> lesson on talons, the sparrow was pierced and dripping blood). Ok, wow, what
> luck. But wait, what are those things out over the field, 1, 2, 4, Bald
> eagles playing some kind of tag, about 3 feet off the ground and flying
> hard. Here they come, oh my gosh are they going to hit us? The eagles cruise
> low, quite close, then veer off, 2 chasing a third. Whew! Can we go home
> now? Wait,what's that gray thing over there? It's a male harrier and its
> eating something. Get the scope on it. Oooh yech that mouse has no head!
> Oogh cool, gross, gnarly.... A pair of soaring redtails, appear from
> nowhere magically overhead, showing off their buteo forms nicely, red-tails
> shining in the sun. We all sit, some lay on the grass and watch them
> soaring, soaring around and around, the sunshine warm on our faces.
>
> Hey Teacher Rob sez a kid, this bird watching thing is kinda cool. I never
> there were so many hawks and stuff around here. Can I do this as a job
> someday?
>
> Rob Sandelin
> Naturalist, writer, teacher
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