[mou] Counting birds

2007-08-14 Thread beimborn
We should not forget nearly all of us go birding for fun. The different levels of participation in the activity mean there must be some standards at some points. Hard to understand why anyone would get upset over a set of standards to regard a record as accepted or not. If some levels don't

[mou] Counting Birds

2004-02-11 Thread Alden McCutchan
When mou net contributors get caught up in what and how to count in approve= d ways, I am reminded of Mary Oliver's lovely poem: Snowy Night =A0 Last night, an owl in the blue dark tossed an indeterminate number =A0 of carefully shaped sounds into the world, in which, a quarter of a mile away, I

[mou] Counting Birds

2004-02-11 Thread wwoess...@aol.com
--part1_127.3abcaf3d.2d5c34e9_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Birders Who Read Poetry-- Mary Oliver's poem is charming, but she is showing off. Note that she is telling the reader that she KNOWS the difference between the call of a Great