Tweeters:



I live in Wyoming. In the spring of 2002 I visited the Seattle area and saw
many birds in a variety of places. Brian Bell guided me for a couple of
days. It was a marvelous exciting trip. I joined the Tweeters list and
participated in many exchanges of points of view. I sometimes offered some
humorous comments. Many wonderfully charming Tweeters replied; it seemed
that I either did not offend people or the ones whom I did offend were
politely silent about my exuberance and occasional irreverence.



Since that time I changed computers and lost most of the Tweeters exchanges
from that period. Someone posed a question about what to call young coots,
since we use the terms goslings and ducklings but no one quite knows what to
call a cootling, or cootlet. In one of my better fits of creativity I
authored a piece on this subject, but cannot find it. I would be deeply
indebted if someone were to find it in their archives. My daughter in law
would share my gratitude. I am just not as creative now as I was then.



Me email address in those days was birder at vcn.com and my backup address was
"mediate at vcn.com." My address now is birder1 at bresnan.com.



Thank you all.



RT Cox

Gillette Wyoming