Subject: [Tweeters] Colima Warbler & Cougars
Date: Sep 5 12:41:26 2009
From: M Brown - borealis at seanet.com


Please disregard the first link. I didn't realize it wouldn't work.

M Brown wrote:
> I have to respectfully disagree with Richard on characterizing the
> area around the Chisos Mountains as "empty" desert. Don't get me wrong
> Richard, it is desert, and when I was a boy riding in the "way back"
> of the family Dodge station wagon (numerous times) it definitely
> seemed empty. My last visit was in 2004 and thirty-eight years after
> my previous. As we drove through the park on the way to Chisos Basin I
> saw a very different desert, an amazingly intact ecosystem given the
> long history of human activity in the region. Not a place you want to
> walk into unprepared for sure, not for inexperienced visitors to
> wander alone, but a place worth seeing. The panoramic shot linked
> below will hopefully show you what I mean.
>
> If you've never been to Big Bend, go. It is birdier than you might
> expect!
>
> http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/17414403.jpg
>
> To see this photo located on a map go to:
>
> http://www.panoramio.com/photo/17414403
>
>
> Richard Carlson wrote:
>> The Colima Warbler hike in Big Bend requires you to start early with
>> headlamps. The first thing sign my wife and I saw at 4:30 am last
>> year was "Warning Mountain Lions, DO NOT Hike in the Dark, or in
>> Small Groups".
>> I don't quite know how I convinced my wife to keep going, but the
>> idea of her waiting for me when she got tired evaporated.
>>
>> This is a long 10 mile all day trip. You have to hike the trail
>> between mid-April and mid-May, so it's hot. If we 66 yr olds with
>> crappy joints can make it, anyone can, but it's not for the faint of
>> heart. Be sure to get hotel reservations in the park many months
>> early. The bird is very hard to find. A major birding group owes me
>> for finding the bird and guiding them to it.
>>
>> Lovely mountains, surrounded by vast areas of empty desert that make
>> eastern Washington look like a garden.
>>
>> RCC
>>
>>
>>
>> Richard Carlson
>> Full-time Birder, Biker and Rotarian
>> Part-time Economist
>> Tucson, AZ, Lake Tahoe, CA, & Kirkland, WA
>> rccarl at pacbell.net
>> Tucson 520-760-4935
>> Tahoe 530-581-0624
>> Kirkland 425-828-3819
>> Cell 650-280-2965
>>
>>
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>> *From:* Roger Moyer <rogermoyer1 at hotmail.com>
>> *To:* tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, September 3, 2009 11:42:45 PM
>> *Subject:* [Tweeters] Colima Warbler
>>
>> I am comtemplating going after the Colima Warbler next spring and
>> would appreicate input from anyone who has made the "jaunt". I
>> understand it it quite a climb to get to the site. If somone could
>> contact me offline about the hike and such I would appreicate it.
>>
>> Roger Moyer
>> rogermoyer1 at hotmail.com <mailto:rogermoyer1 at hotmail.com>
>> Chehalis, WA
>>
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