Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:15:29 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jerry and Laura Tarbell Subject: Re: New Field Guide MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pete's patience with less than expert birders is legendary. He's quite a guy. Somewhere over to my right is an autographed copy of Before the Echo. You'd think I would remember that his name has an 'e' on the end. Jerry PS- A smallheaded flycatcher just went by. ----- Original Message ----- From: S. Hoffmann To: Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8:57 AM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] New Field Guide > Absolutely, Pete Dunne is better. But he teaches serious good lessons about > birding in a funny way, while Joey Slinger is just completely off the wall > funny. A Pete Dunne book would not be a gag gift, while the Slinger book > would be nothing but a gag. A couple of years ago I was at Cape May in > November, at the Hawkwatch platform. Pete showed up on a weekend, on his > day off, with his Leica Televid spotting scope that he had won in the World > Series of Birding. He sat there for at least 2 1/2 hours, calling out the > birds at the limit of conjecture, and teaching everyone how he had figured > them out. I say "at least 2 1/2 hours" because I reluctantly left at that > time to drive home to NY but he was still there. What a marvelous experience > that was. I feel as I imagine I would have felt if I had the same > opportunity with Roger Tory Peterson. > S. Hoffmann > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================