A small comment on birding in Britain, Back in the 60's, a defense contractor I worked for built a "zero noise" microwave amplifier, cooled by liquid helium. It was delivered to the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope in England by the Department Head of the group who developed it. This was cutting edge big, big-time science at the time.
As a reward and celebration after its successful use, some of the staff twitchers took this non birder with them into the mountains to see the reported CHOUGH. Returning to London on his way home, a gregarious cabby asked him what he had been doing in England. He mentioned he had been up to see a CHOUGH. The cabby commented "Oh, yes, very rare bird". The casual way it was said floored him. As he scene was described to me, he said, "Everybody in England is a bird watcher". Sy Schiff -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
