If I had a dime for every bag, stick, stone, or leaf-bird I've ever seen, I'd be rich. But then, since I've had so much joy of birding, maybe I AM. Linda Whyte
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Forest Strnad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
