Dear Alan, I'm sorry that I can't help you with your ID question. Too bad
the AZ birders couldn't take a photo to validate their sighting.

But I have a suggestion for all us tweeterians: I think we should all get
small silver replicas of some bird or other - I like great blue heron, for
no particular reason. Then, when we do a good deed, we should smile Mona
Lisa-like and press a silver bird silently into the palm of the do-goodee.
The more outre members of our community might want to don a slim black mask,
too.

There is a serious point to my suggestion: It would be a great way to let
non-birders know that we are a community, we do care for things other than
just birds, and we like to spread happiness wherever we go. All kidding
aside, I try to mention to local businesses that I encounter in the course
of my travels that I am a birder and that the reason I am spending money in
a given locale is because of birds. - Connie, Seattle

csidles at isomedia.com

on 3/2/05 5:29 PM, Alan Richards & Ann Musche' at mrm at willapabay.org wrote:

> Greetings All,
>
> Many times, when I am birding, I meet other people out birding, and I
> neglect to ask their names, or, having asked, forget these same names. As
> I read various Tweeters posts, I see that this tendency is widespread. In
> the case I wish to relate now, I find that others have done this, and in
> addition they are strangers to me, I have never met them. So, you might
> think I am off the hook in this case. However, . . .
>
> Do any of you know Rosemary & Elliott, of Arizona ? Interestingly
> enough, they seem to have met someone, at the famous Redwing site in SW
> Olympia, perhaps from SW WA, or perhaps with a name beginning with A
> (?). They have mailed thanks to a friend of mine who lives in SW
> Washington, whose name starts with A, thanking him for helping them to find
> the Redwing, in Olympia, in Feb, before Feb 20. My friend, Anthony, was
> not at the Redwing site that day; neither was I; neither was my friend
> Andrew, also a somewhat nearby neighbor in SW WA.
>
> So, I have run thru all the likely (?) suspects here, and now appeal to
> Tweeterdom for any likely answers to this question. Please e-mail to me
> off-list if you have potentially useful suggestions, & I will send you
> contact info for these out-of-state birders.
>
> Thanks,
> Good naming& birding,
> Alan Richards / Naselle WA 98638 / USA
> mrm AT willapabay.org
>
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