The Robins referred to in the Carolins Bird Club page is indeed Chan. What
an amazing man. I miss doing the Triadelphia count with him. I remember
one of my first personal encounters with Chan during a field trip while at
the 1994 MOS conference - it was a "birding blitz" type of carpool through
Harford (maybe also Cecil?... my memory banks are a bit corrupted) county
and Chan was in the lead in his ancient car - we could hardly keep up!
Chan taught me so much on that one brief couple of hours about learning
bird songs. I still remember all of that when I am out in the field
listening... not sighting because those pesky birds are craftier than I am.
Good Birding,
Frank Boyle
Rohrersville, MD
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Jim Wilkinson <lakekoshare...>wrote:
> Patricia,
>
> This part got my attention in the Carolinabirdclub page: "As you can see,
> there are many reasons not to use these codes. The foremost reason is that
> they are a barrier to communication with people who do not know the codes."
>
> Thanks for posting the link.
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
> e On Saturday, March 16, 2013 9:18:35 PM UTC-4, Patricia Wood wrote:
> > The discussion about the avocet prompted me to google the code and I
> came across a wonderful discussion on the derivation of the codes, and
> their use and misuse, and here, hopefully, is the link:
> > http://www.carolinabirdclub.org/bandcodes.html
> >
> > Even more interesting, I suspect Chan is the Robbins it refers to at one
> point. Anyone know?
> >
> > Patricia Wood
> > Silver Spring
>
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