Subject: [Tweeters] Colima Warbler & Cougars
Date: Sep 7 23:19:13 2009
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net - vogelfreund at comcast.net


I'm rereading that book (Naturalist's Mexico) and am wondering about something in my distant past. The Meling Ranch in northern Baja California was founded by a Norwegian family in the 1800's. In 1983 or so, the author stayed there while exploring the area, and referred to the last surviving family member still running it. In the late 1940's, my dad was contemplating moving us to California, with something to do with a ranch. Two Mexican men visited us at our Madison, WI home, dressed in Charro costumes and left a huge sombrero with Mexico stitched on it. I wonder if my dad was thinking of moving to Mexico? Apparently it was just a pipe dream that never materialized.


Phil Hotlen; Bellingham, WA

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Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Colima Warbler & Cougars


Sep %th,


Whenever the subject of serious birding comes up about the Big Bend region of Texas, I can't help thinking about the book: A Naturalists's Mexico by Roland H. Wauer, 1992. In chapter 4, starting page 43, and titled "Maderas del Carmen", he makes a convincing argument for Imperial Woodpeckers having been there! That small mountain range lies SE of the Big Bend and robs it of rainfall coming from the Gulf of Mexico; meaning there is lusher vegetation (trees!). But I have not seen any followup on his claim by others.


Phil Hotlen; Bellingham, WA

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From: "Richard Carlson" <rccarl at pacbell.net>
To: "Roger Moyer" <rogermoyer1 at hotmail.com>
Cc: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2009 7:58:48 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Tweeters] Colima Warbler & Cougars


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



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