Subject: [Tweeters] re: birds that aren't
Date: Dec 6 18:59:24 2011
From: Penny Koyama - plkoyama at comcast.net


Tweets,
I think it was with a guide in Alaska that I first heard a guide use the
acronym, BLO, for these non-birds--bird-like objects. I love it!
Penny Koyama, Bothell
plkoyama at comcast.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dianna Moore" <dlmoor2 at coastaccess.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 10:22 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] re: birds that aren't


> 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
>
>
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