Hey Tweets:
When doing raptor surveys out here we often are fooled by a great "stick
bird", so I determined to do something about those that fooled us more than
once. I bought some of that iridescent orange spray paint and went up and
down the beach spraying those "stick birds". Next time we were out on the
beach I anxiously awaited the outcome....nothing, no one even noticed! No
one could tell they had been painted, but then no one called out a false
sighting either; by spraying them the lighting/coloring was different so
they no longer appeared bird-like.

Maybe next time a florescent yellow....

Dianna Moore
Ocean Shores, Wa.
dlmoor2 at coastaccess.com