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From:         Fred Pierce <fpierce@AVIALANTIC.COM>
Subject:      Re: RFI "shag poke"
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And also "fly-up-the-crick" - seems like that mostly was Green Heron. Both
that and the "shite" varient I learned from my mother who was from S.
Jersey. She didn't mention the ballast part though.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]On
> Behalf Of Walter Ellison
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 6:28 PM
> To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
> Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] RFI "shag poke"
>
>
> I imagine shagpoke is a variant on shitepoke as Chris suggests.
> The name is
> applied to all herons, although it is most commonly heard in reference to
> Green Heron. The name refers to a heron's tendency to lose ballast when
> flushed up the creek.
>
> Good Birding,
>
> Walter Ellison
> MD-DC Atlas Coordinator - MOS
> 23460 Clarissa Road
> Chestertown, MD 21620
> phone: 410-778-9568
> e-mail: rossgull@crosslink.net
>
> "A person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast" - E. B.
> White (in "Stuart Little")
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Boughton, James M." <JBOUGHTON@IMF.ORG>
> To: <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 5:45 PM
> Subject: [MDOSPREY] RFI "shag poke"
>
>
> Does anyone know what bird in this area is also known as a "shag poke"?
> On the web, all I could find was a reference to a folk tune by that
> name, "named after a native bird"
> (http://www.greenmanreview.com/josephandhis%20fiddle.html).  (A Yahoo
> web search on the term also digs up several porn sites!)  A friend
> thought it might be a heron species, but beyond that I'm in the dark.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jim Boughton
> Chevy Chase
>
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