Dear Tweeters,

The Solitary Sandpiper was at the little pond west of
Lyman (SR 20 milepost 73.8 in Skagit County) again
today, identified by a cheapskate birder.

Generalizations are tricky, and maybe a waiter would
say that birders are parsimonious tippers.

I'd say that birders are not really "cheap." It's just
that, unlike the majority of Americans, most birders
are not mindless consumers. Most birders I know do not
go deeply into debt to buy unnecessarily expensive
cars, boats, houses, and so forth. Most birders I know
are well-educated people who choose not to blunder
blithely down the consumeristic path of big-box
excess. I don't know what the American economy would
look like if everybody acted the way birders do. It
might be interesting to conjecture, though.


Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch

near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington

garybletsch at yahoo.com


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