He has my sympathy. Well, I got three-toed woodpecker sawdust in my eye. I got yellow-bellied sapsucker sap stuck in my ear.
If ya think that's bad, well lemme tell ya somethin' on the sly: I got double-crested cormorant fish poop in my beer. On 3/3/18, Steve Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday I and two friends returned to the location in the Lost Lake > Peatland outside Tower where we'd previously found both black-backed and > American three-toed woodpeckers (see Feb 3 post). We were fortunate enough > to find both species again, including a pair of American three-toed > woodpeckers that we were able to observe at length. One was especially > cooperative, allowing Connor to approach and photograph it from perhaps ten > feet away as it flecked bits of bark from a dead spruce just above eye level > and slightly upwind of Connor. That wind direction mattered became apparent > minutes later when we heard Conner mutter "I'm getting 3-toed woodpecker > sawdust in my eye." We advised Conner, that while he might have the makings > of a good country song title there, his complaint was unlikely to elicit > much sympathy in the birding community. > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- Jason M. Frank Founder and Vice President, Luddite Ornithologists League (LOL) High Priest & Highly Reluctant Treasurer, Alleged Order of the Nettle & the Toad "The Universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken." -Dr. Wiggs Dannyboy Sent from my invisible blue Homing Pigeon ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
