Posted by Shane on January 01, 1970 at 00:00:00
So I got to see Toe in action (or is it inaction?) at the pewee spot and the Loggerhead Kingbird site. Toe marveled that he, like Mark, managed to miss two Code 5 birds in just under 30 hours...surely a new record. I marveled in hearing Toe belt out perhaps my favorite Toeism yet. Beating out such greats as: "I'll bet my life that's a Trindade Petrel!", or after Noah Frade spotted a Brant off Black Point he asked for a field guide. Nico Salino handed him one and as he kept thumbing through the book he got a little animated and exclaimed "I don't see Spectacled here!" "That's cause it's an Eastern guide" Nico reminded him. Yup, always the optimist nothing beat what I heard yesterday. I don't know whether it was to someone or just to the air but shortly before giving up I heard the captain, our own Yogi Berra of birds proudly announce: "My county list is bigger than my state list!" I'm still trying to figure that one out.