Hope you got Chihuahan Ravens at the Brownsville Dump. We didn't look for them, but we did get both sexes of the Rose Throated Becard at Santa Ana, a Violet Green-ear in Johnson City and Greater Pewee and Tropical Parula in San Antonio.
R. ________________________________ From: Warren Woessner <wwoess...@slwip.com> To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 3:21 PM Subject: [mou-net] Mini-Review "The Big Year" Ignore the Strib pan of "The Big Year" and go see it, before it's gone. The movie is based on the book about the 1998 "competition" between Sandy Komito (Owen Wilson), Al Levantin (Steve Martin) and Greg Wilson (Jack Black) to break Komito's 1987 big year record for the ABA area. I met Komito when he was doing his 1987 big year, and birded with him on Attu in 1990. Wilson does a good job of capturing his intensity, quirkiness and humor. How you will feel about this movie probably depends a lot on your opinions about listing and big years, days, months, etc., but Iris and I loved it! I had dragged her to many of the locales that are de rigeur if you are list-building, like the Brownsville Dump and Patagonia, that are shown in the movie. Isabella Rosellini's spot-on impression of "Annie Auklet" just nails Debbie Shearwater and her pelagic empire. There are plenty of ornithological improbabilities - particularly on Attu - but if you want to know what Attu was like in the 90's - or would enjoy "seeing" it again, GO now - "The Big Year" will probably not be in theatres for long. Warren Woessner ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
