Back when I lived in Wisconsin I was attempting to have a Hey birders, Back when I lived in Wisconsin I was attempting to have a day of birding at Horicon Marsh to celebrate my birthday. About 30 minutes north of the Milwaukee suburbs my parents' car went dysfunctional and I had to wake up my mom at 6:30am (I was younger back then) to have her come up and rescue me. I was horribly depressed to go from "day at Horicon Marsh" to filling the birdfeeders at home...until a Carolina Wren came to the feeder I had just filled. That was a state bird.
On my honeymoon in Hawaii I crossed the line that exists for all families where one person is a birder and the spouse is definitely not. My wife was horribly upset at the amount of attention and time the birds were garnering compared to the new bride and had just deservedly chewed me out...I didn't dare look at a bird at that moment (so I know I wasn't birding) when an Erckel's Francolin ran in front of our rental car. I didn't tell her about that lifer until we got back to Wisconsin. How hard is it to see a lifer and not celebrate? Happy birding! Chad Heins Mankato P.S. I just heard secondhand report of a possible Prairie Falcon at the sod farms west of Mapleton (corner of CR21 and CR14). "But ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?" --Job 12:7, 9 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
