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Posted by Paul-the-other on 10:35:57 01/24/11
In Reply to: Re: Turner River: REVi again? posted by Vincent Lucas
The question is: Is that some evidence or all the evidence. I respect and follow your many observations, conclusion, and viewpoints but a wise man, I believe it was Sonny Bass, once told me that birds have wings, can't read ornithology abstracts and are often subject to the vagaries of the wind. Three years past I recorded a mockingbird at the Elk Refuge in Jackson Wyoming. The rangers and refuge stewards assured me that I was confusing a Townsend Solitaire with a mockingbird. They were relating their life experiences, which to me was some evidence. But I had 10 pictures which was now "all the evidence." The bird was even wing-shadowing as we know so well here in the deep South. The mockingbird is now recorded in the refuge books as a confirmed sighjting.
I also enjoyed the sighting of the Vermillion flycatcher, and the Wheatear in the ENP. Before both of those events the birds would be a maybe or even a "never." Now all of TAS realizes that odd things do happen and birds do have wings and fly places.
Alan Defoe, the great naturalist from the 40's and 50's taught me throught his books to look, observe and be open to the new. Then record it as an experience. So, I have my experience and you have yours, and the resident birders have theirs. I'm not looking for records, merely sharing my observations. I've been in Florida since 1944 and in the woods since 1949, and a photographer since 1956. It makes no difference in the order of things or perhaps even this TAS board what I saw or heard or photographed. As Henry Beston would say, I'm just another nation passing through this universe in harmony with the animals in nature.
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