Hello, Birders. Not an earthshattering rarity, but I saw a Northern Shrike at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County, yesterday afternoon, Friday, Dec. 4th. Now, every once in a while, I get asked the age-old question, "Where's that?" Or, "Okay, I know where Greenlee Preserve is, but where, more or less, was the bird?" Well, with Google Maps, you can show the exact location of the bird. It's this simple: http://tiny.cc/4wxmc The blue stickpin indicates the small tree the bird was perched on. For a small and fairly familiar site like Greenlee, you could probably get away with "From Denver, travel west on U.S. 36 to the second exit for U.S. 287, go north on U.S. 287, [blah, blah, blah, lots of steps deleted], park your car, walk east then south along the unmarked trail for about 200 feet, bear right at the fork in the trail, proceed straight at the four-way inters..." Puh-leeze. That is so 2004. It's 2009, almost 2010. And if you're trying to describe a bird somewhere around John Martin Reservoir or the San Luis Hills, fuhgeddaboudit. It's so easy just to say: Northern Shrike, http://tiny.cc/4wxmc (Same thing can be accomplished with latitude and longitude; this is my olive branch to those who are "visual learners.") -------------------------------
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