Subject: [Tweeters] Thankful for the "Commonplace"
Date: Mar 31 10:40:17 2012
From: Mechejmch - mechejmch at aol.com



Great rainy day ramblings, Blair.

I write a monthly column about birds (Beaks and Bills) for a Bellingham paper and one of my recent columns was about common birds or, as I referred to them in the title, Blue Collar Birds. You really hit the nail on the head with the overlooked and unappreciated birds around us.

In the time-honored tradition of name dropping, I took David Sibley on a tour of northern Whatcom County a few years ago and I found myself apologizing for the lack of birds. He put an end to my apologies about what he might have seen a month earlier when he said, "It's OK, I enjoy spending time with a good House Sparrow."

There's perspective for you, so enjoy the "commonplace."

Joe Meche
Bellingham