Hi everyone, No birding trip is complete without at least once stopping the car, backing up, and looking at a "bird-shaped thingy" in a tree, which turns out to be a misshapen branch, a bundle of leaves, etc. It happens with such frequency that we have a word for it: skultch. I'm not sure who first invented and used the term, but it is part of my birding lingo.
But like Forest says, we learn by our mistakes and it makes us better birders. We keep looking until we get it right! Good birding! (& Happy CBC-ing!) Dave Bartkey Faribault,MN greathornedd...@hotmail.com > Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:06:42 -0800 > From: prairie...@yahoo.com > Subject: [mou-net] About bats, And who is batty? > To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU > > Greetings: > > Steve Weston got in touch with a PHD candidate from the U. of Minnesota > telling him about my report of a bat in our apple tree. Disappointment > follows high expectations. A person who helps us with filling our seed feeder > looked up at the "bat" today, and was disappointed to have to report to us > that what we thought was a bat was 2 or 3 leaves clinging together. One of > the things I noticed was that neither the "bat" nor the birds bothered each > other. Thanks to Steve Weston for trying to be helpful. Sorry I was wrong. > > Some of my disappointment is that, at my age, I don't get out myself to fill > the feeders and would have discoverd my error sooner. The movement of the > "bat, object" was so rhymical, like breathing. The "bat" was about 20 feet > from our kitchen window. I was looking at it with good, Swarovsky binoculars. > It was this morning that I set up my Elite scope. > > I have had communications, via phone, twice with the PhD candidate. And he > was coming down Saturday to get the"bat". Thankfully I saved him a trip with > my disappointing news. > > Well, all this was not about birds. Sorry for my mistake. So we learn from > our errors. > > Rev. Forest V. Strnad, Faribault, Mn. > > > > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
