Re: silly question (silly answer ?)

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Good response Darius, and right along the lines of Pete Dunne and others
who have observed that owners of all-night restaurants respond
positively to the fact that all those weird people who are buying
breakfast at 5:30AM are birders.  As but one example, communities like
Patagonia and Sonoita AZ have come to depend on birders traversing the
TNC refuge and the famous nearby rest stop on the road above the
wetlands.  The ABA has published some good studies of the economic
benefits of birding on a number of otherwise marginally-sustainable
communities around the country.  Lord knows the proprieters of motels
and restaurants in Lewes (and Dogfish Head and the LLBean outlet in
Rehoboth) couldn't care less if we saw nada mucho on the last FONT
pelagic....we were paying customers of their enterprises.

....and if you've never read this stuff in Dunne's "Tales of a Low-Rent
Birder", make haste, there's not a moment to lose!  (sorry, in joke)

So, honi soit qui mal y pense!
David Strother
Bethesda, Maryland
dstrother@pop.dn.net

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