Hi Tweets,

Barb and I joined other Auduboners last evening for a preview of "The Big
Year". The movie gets pretty good reviews from us. The story of The Big Year
as told by Mark Obmascik is pretty easy to see despite the inevitable
changes by the screenwriters and director. A little too much of superbirders
galloping about, spotting the birds on the run, and then racing off to the
next site again at a dead run, but then you've gotta have some drama. I'm
not sure I got it right, but were we treated to a view of a Great Spotted
Woodpecker in a Northwest forest? -- Obmascik tells about one that appeared
improbably on Attu in 1986 (no trees on Attu) but was shot by a collector
before the group with Attours arrived there. So did the screenwriters
resurrect the bird and move it to a forest in the Pacific Northwest so that
one of the Big Year nuts could add it to his list? It's to nail down stuff
like that that we're going to see The Big Year again. Besides, it's a lot of
fun!

Paul Webster
Seattle
paul.webster AT comcast.net
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