Subject: [Tweeters] re: birds that aren't
Date: Dec 6 21:58:17 2011
From: Mechejmch - mechejmch at aol.com



I had a call from a woman in the north county a couple of years ago reporting a "definite" Snowy Owl in a field near her home. It was the right time of year and I'm always ready for a Snowy, but I did ask her a few questions about size, behavior, etc., and she said that she "saw it moving a few times."
So, I did the 30 mile round trip to document a 1-gallon plastic milk jug that was sun-bleached to a very bright white/snowy color! The milk jug appeared to be hung up on something and would move now and then when a breeze blew across the open field.

Oh what fun it is to ride.....

Joe Meche
Bellingham




-----Original Message-----
From: JChristian Kessler <1northraven at gmail.com>
To: Penny Koyama <plkoyama at comcast.net>
Cc: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 9:42 pm
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] re: birds that aren't


back in Virginia we had a bird, buteo plasticus, for what appeared to be a buteo, but was a plastic trash bag caught in a tree. but if seen at dusk or at first light, it could also be a bubo plasticus.

Chris Kessler


On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Penny Koyama <plkoyama at comcast.net> wrote:

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