Al: For your 100th:
Got my lifer American Tree Sparrows while standing on frozen cow patties in a cousin's corral in NW North Dakota in late October-early November, 1985. In 1988 I saw my life Swallow-tailed Kite while I was helping a guy re-roof his house in San Antonio TX--Just the first record of STKI for San Antonio in 40-60 years. The way I was yelling and pointing, the two off-duty San Antonio Police officers I was helping thought I had seen a wreck. The STKI was confirmed five days later by a fellow who walked out the door of a beauty salon, his wife was at, to smoke a cigarette, looked across the street to the linear park along the paralleling creek drainage to see his lifer Swallow-tailed Kite. Woke up in a hammock at Lake Catemaco, on southern Mexico, on January 1, 1973 with a splitting headache, and looked up to see my lifer Lovely Cotinga, female. This was during a Texas A&M University Wildlife Biology Tropical Ecology field trip. Heard my US lifer Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush in South Dakota in 2010. Only 1,240 miles from San Antonio and 1,500 miles north of the places in South Texas that it was seen twice before in the US. Had seen them in Mexico. Later! Steve Stevan Hawkins San Antonio TX -----Original Message----- From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pastor Al Schirmacher Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mou-net] Unusual Locations 99 posts on this topic in three days (four listservs), we must be scratching where people are itching! (Fact is, we all see unusual birds while not birding, which is one of the beauties of this hobby/avocation/passion.) Perhaps we should consider a compilation, or article at some point...? Good birding to all! Al Schirmacher Princeton, MN Mille Lacs & Sherburne Counties ---- 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
