The Sax-Zim Winter Birding Festival headquartered out of Meadowlands was a delight. Helen & Dave Abramson and Mike Hendrickson are to be commended for working so hard to bring about this fantastic celebration of birds. All the volunteers who toiled there did as volunteers do--they made life better. The leaders and the vendors were great. A bus I was in had a minor mechanical problem as it toured the bog, but it set us back only slightly because help came like the cavalry. Vans and a tow truck made sure we were back on course in two shakes of a gray jay's tail. A birder lost the memory card from his camera. He wasn't sure where it had deserted him. Birders travel not only for life birds, but for life photos as well. The loss of the memory card filled with once-in-a-lifetime photographs was a great loss. The bus driver took it upon himself to search the areas where that bus had stopped, found the tiny memory card and returned it to the grateful birder. Tucker Lutter, a 15-year old birder with enthusiasm worth emulating , saw his 300th bird--a Boreal Owl. My only suggestion for the Festival is that they sell sweatshirts with mustard stains already on them so that we don't have to do that part ourselves. My thanks to everyone involved with The Sax-Zim Winter Birding Festival for making me one happy birder. There is nothing like having a Boreal Chickadee three feet away from me to drive away those winter blahs.
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