Re: [IRCA] Robins say spring is coming

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:07 AM 2/2/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>Cholly wrote:
>"Three days ago, I saw a flock of some 12 robins pause next door and 
>commence to chow down on some berries from the trees there. Robins are
>supposed to be checked out on the coming of Spring, and NC is not within 
>their wintering area."
>
>I would never question either the wit or the wisdom of either CAT or Der 
>Kashketfeller, but David Allen Sibley does (at least of the former). The 
>American Robin, according to Sibley's map, is found year around in all but 
>the Canadian border areas of the United States. But only in Florida and 
>southern areas of Georgia, Texas, Arizona and California can you expect 
>the same robins to live year around.

Qal

Thank you for never questioning my wit or wisdom. The quantity 0 (zero) is 
accepted everywhere. As for Don D. Caskethumpermann, don't even question 
his wit or wisdom. Ever. He has put up with me for several decades. Either 
he is patient or dumb. I say he is patient.

Anyone care to fight over the matter....I mean a beat-em-up, knock 'em down 
fight?

Hi.



>When I was a newspaper editor in Illinois, I had to humor the callers who 
>would see the first robin of the year in January or February. T'ain't 
>news, I'd tell 'em. They've just run out of food on the farm or in the 
>woods, I'd tell 'em.
>
>Cholly, they didn't believe me, either.

OK, I'll take your word for it. The robins were just dumb, and will 
probably head back south when they see what a blunder they've made. 
Besides, who wants to eat cold berries with the wind blowing into your 
intergluteal cleft?

I remember your career at WMIX. Which paper did you edit?

>Which brings up the question of how one goes about QSL'ing the tiny 
>transmitters ornithologists attach to our feathered friends to track their 
>annual pilgrimages.

That may be a worthwhile question. There must be data encoded in the 
transmissions to determine which bird is which. But I'll bet you the birds 
in question won't send you a QSL. And how would one determine which 
ornithologist to send a report to? And do ornithologists know how to write?

Cee Alan Taylor,
Garufunk, NC


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Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
Greenville, North Carolina 

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