**************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************What a gracious note. I agree completely as one who has benefitted from this great group of birders. That rare birds may come to the Upper Valley to see the special people is one of the nicer thoughts for this day.Thanks**************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************Alan KeittOn May 24, 2014, at 6:28 AM Sat144, Scott Johnson wrote:**************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************ScottI would like to echo what Cindy Crawford said about birders sharing their information. When I first saw the wheatear, I knew I wasn't in Kansas anymore, but George Clark identified it for me. I might still be looking through the books. If it it hadn't been for all the Upper Valley groups that invited me to their bird walks and all the kind individuals who let me look through their scopes or at their pictures over the years, I wouldn't have had my binoculars in the car or the interest to "find" the bird. Truth be told, it flew in front of me and seemed like a neon sign saying "Look at me." If it weren't for Vt ebird and uv-birders, I wouldn't have known how to share the information. And if it wasn't for the challenge of finding 150 species in Windsor County, I would have gone to my appointmentGeorge Clark, Chris Rimmer, Ed Hack, Kent McFarland, Cindy Crawford, Jim Block, Spencer Hardy, Kyle Jones in particular, and all the rest of the birders in the Upper Valley too, found this bird. I only told people where to look. Perhaps birds come here to see the special people. Thanks for sharing with me all your knowledge and birds. It's amazing what and who lives with us.