Annual Bird Watching Report

Don't "birds" hit the beaches of Great Britain in bikini's? Gad, I miss Summer!

Barry

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Barry N. Turner
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Getting cold up North and flocks of Snowbirds of all varieties, human and feathered, are arriving in South Florida even as I post. We natives appreciate and need them all, so this is my annual report on the birds I recognize from RCW. What rare bird sightings have you made?

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  1. The Yellow-Bellied Troll____________2

  1. The Black-Billed Spammmer________2

  1. The Purple-Crested Knowitall_______2

  1. The Scissor-Tailed knifeintheback____2

  2. The Cockaded-Namedropper_______3

  1. The Pileated-Neverwrong__________2

  2. The Ring-Necked Disagree_________4

  1. The Good-Grey Lurker____________14

  2. The Palmated Self-Deprecator______2

  1. The Double-crested Ontheotherhand

  2. The Screeching-Takeoffense_______4
  3. The Needle-Beaked Pickapart______3

And a native Florida bird.......................... The WebbedTv Musing-Booby_________1

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

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Arch

Hi Arch. Y'all will probably see a few Great Northern Hairy Chested Nut Scratchers around Hollywood Fl. at this time of year. They roost and procreate in the Ontario and Quebec woods during the summer and take flight on their southern migration at the first sign of snow. The Quebec variety is recognised on the beach by the thong. A Western sub-species of Scratcher can be seen flocking in and around the Arizona/California deserts during the cooler months. These coloUrful birds usually drag their nests along behind them but that's ok because they are wonderful fliers! A good vantage point to observe these magnificent fowl is the local Wal-Mart and they can be recognized by their familiar cry " Eh ay ay ay... waddya say!". These fine birds are quite tame, generally have impeccable manners and are a delight to have at one's house for dinner, but not as a course! The G.N.H.C.N.S. begin their northern migration in the spring on the hot air fronts that drift northward across the lower 48 and into Canada. Although the frontal phenomena is present year-round, intensifies during both equinox and election years for reasons that have not yet been determined.

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Tom Storey

Hi Tom, Good report. Another coloUrful sub-species, the 'Birds of Summer' can be seen here and in Arizona in Spring and later in big cities all over the U.S. and Canada. Sadly extinct in Montreal, they are flourishing in the hot air of D.C. Instead of thongs they wear jock straps which require constant adjustment under their numbered plumage capped with billed crests. They are usually seen flocking around around home plates spitting tobacco juice. Swinging a plugged spindle, they chirp their characteristic cry, "Iwantmoremoney-Iwaantmooremooney"

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

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Wally

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Arch, About this time of the year, the Great Northern Snow birds begin to appear in the lower Rio Grande Valley. The locals there compare them to hemmoroids (sp?). They say if they come and leave, they're bearable; but if they come and stay, they're a pain in the ass! :-)

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Ken Moon

Ken:

I am in San Antonio. We are currently experiencing a large influx of New Yankee Warblers. Like a Mockingbird they do not have a readily identified call. However, they can be identified by the following:

- White legs sticking out of cargo shorts, with black socks and dress shoes on the males

- Also for the males, fishing hats a la Grumpy Old Men. For male and female, flip-up clip-on sunglasses on the more mature of the species

- For both male and female, roosting places include RVs, relations, and Mexican food restaurants along water areas such as the Riverwalk

Can be more readily identified by the following calls:

- You think this is cold? Last week in PA I was shoveling a foot of snow off the walk!

- Damn these halapeenos are hot! Don't eat those Ma or youse gonna be screamin' for ice cream all night!

- Ahhhhh.... you guys haven't tasted a decent dwog until you have a NY dwog (They don't know that dwogs are endangered down here and we can't hunt them. What is a dwog anyway?)

- Geeezzz.... lookit the size of that iced tea glass! Whadussit hold? A frikkin' gallon? (Actually no, just a quart). Actually considered the lunch time size pretty much everwhere around here.

I know I have made positive ID when I introduce myself, and they respond with a grimace (rarely) or the respond with "So how you doin't Rahbut?"

I then ask if they are from around here, and they beam with pride as they think they fit right in.

Good to see 'em around for a while, and like them, I am glad when they are on the way home.

Robert/Rahbut

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nailshooter41

Arch,

Great subject! Thanks for the chuckle guys, I love your senses of humor.

Living in a Pocono Mts. (PA) resort area I can relate!!

Take care, Ruth

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rthniles

Well, for my 2-cents, Rahbut is much better'n Rawbutt.

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Owen Lowe

They love the Bosque del Apache game refuge there. An excellent place to view birds and critters all year round. Then a greenchili cheeseburger at the original Owl Cafe in San Antonio, NM... John

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John DeBoo

======================= You should see a slight slow down in the infllux for a few days. They've been stacking up those cars and RVs like firewood on I-35 heree in the Austin area. The local body shops say it'll probably be 2-3 weeks before they catch up on the backlog. And they say WE can't drive in the icy stuff. (:-)

BTW, Rick Perry's staff says we may have an open season on dwogs next spring!

Ken Moon Webberville, TX.

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Ken Moon

Heck even those guys have manners. Only about half of them use the alternate "Rawbutt" when attracting attention. I myself do like the "Rahbut" variant better.

Robert - in Texan, pronounced RAWBURT

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nailshooter41

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