Richard,
You IDIOT, would you please stop bothering the people of this list (and all
of the other lists that you've become a major nuisance on) about your
inability to identify birds. You were kicked off of this list several years
ago only to be allowed back on under the condition that you would behave
yourself. Obviously you can't do that. Did you get kicked off of the MI list
for your behavior and have decided to come back to annoy the good people of
MD?
For the people on this list that are unaware of Mr. Wood's history (I refuse
to call him Doctor despite his insistence that he has a PHD) let me explain
before you fire off your flames. Several years ago this individual arrived
on the birding scene in Maryland. It didn't take long for him to start down
the road that he had proceeded down in each state that he visited. MR. Woods
reports rare and unusual sightings, and when he is questioned on them, he
goes off and a diatribe about the "High Priests" that don't accept his
reports. More than a few years ago he reported a Connecticut Warbler from
his yard in the middle of the winter. Also in the report he had mentioned
that he had narrowed the choices down to something like Hermit Thrush, the
warbler and something else (possibly Fox Sparrow), and had settled on the
warbler due to the description in the field guide that listed leaf
scratching as one of its feeding behaviors because he had seen the bird
under a bush doing just that. When someone questioned him about the ID and
pointed out,very politely, that there are no accepted records for the
species in North America during that time frame and that it would be a
sighting worthy of documentation, he went off. Not only that, he claimed to
know of 3 records in the US during the winter period and he had 2 of them!
(the other was from his time in upstate New York). After being thrashed by
many of the members for his behavior, and after his continuation of spewing
vile comments on the list, he was sent to list detention by Norm. Eventually
he promised to behave himself and was let back on where he has lurked in the
background until now. He has been kicked off of more lists than most people
will subscribe to in their lifetimes.
This behavior has followed him everywhere that he has gone from Utah, to New
York, on to his stint on MDOSPREY and up into MN or MI where he continues to
rant and rave and complain when people don't believe his ridiculous reports.
He feels that since he has been birding for more than 10 years that he
shouldn't be considered a beginner and should be respected for his
experience, after all, he does hold a PHD.
Oh, in regards to the Broad-billed Hummingbird that he reported in Utah, you
can see his photo here:
http://www.utahbirds.org/RecCom/RareBirdsIndex.html
and the record's committee report here:
http://www.utahbirds.org/RecCom/2005/2005_02Summary.htm
Judge for yourself, but the committee, and everyone else that viewed the
image (except the incompetent Mr. Wood) believed the bird to be a
Black-chinned Hummingbird.
Mr. Wood, you are a prime example of a very sad, very sick man that can't
live with or accept his limitations and failings. When help is offered to
you to go birding and aid you in your identification skills, you become a
PHD snob that is above the help of 'amateurs'. The members of the Maryland
Records Committee (and all records committees for that matter) have been
belittled by you in your write-ups over and over and over and over again.
You just can't accept that you don't know how to identify birds and believe
that its because you are not accepted into some imagined secret club of the
birding world that your sightings are rejected. Let me tell you, you are not
accepted because you are a hateful clown that can't accept rejection no
matter how gently it's presented to you and your sightings are not accepted
because YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO IDENTIFY BIRDS. You write posts to the lists
that you subscribe to that offend everyone that reads them.
Please go away and stay away next time.
Ed Boyd
Westminster, MD
----- Original Message -----
From: "RICHARD JILL WOOD" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Rufous
Hi Dan and all,
In 2008, there's a Rufous in MD, and in 2006 there was some other "western"
hummer seen there. Yet I am told that I didn't see a Broad-billed in my
yard when I lived in Utah (even though one weas spotted in Wyoming/Idaho in
the spring and they have to pass thru Utah on their way back to Arizona) in
2004 or Western Gulls in Utah in 2005....puhlease.
If birds can (and do) go hundreds of miles out of their "normal" ranges (can
you say Western Kingbird or Neotropic Cormorant?), why can't they go a few?
The more I bird and follow bird lists, the more I realize that those that
are called and think they are "experts", are nothing but ex-spurts, unknown
drips of water. The next person that I hear or say, "You couldn't have seen
that here...", as I think of those of you that told me I didn't see Wood
Thrushes in October near Paper Mill Flats, off the bike path...
My point has always been that the birds don't read the books and just do
what they can to find food and habitat to survive (do any of you EVER wonder
why their ranges are EXPANDING and yet there are fewer of them?). We just
put the "experts" up on pedestals they don't belong on. Most of them aren't
even ornithologists. Yet they are the High Priests.
I'm waiting for one to turn this guy into a Ruby-throat, just like they
turned my Broad-billed into a Black-chinned, which it wasn't (I had three
sprecies of hummers at my feeder that summer, and all three behaved
differently...oops, I can't use behavior as a "field mark", say the experts
(yet they do it all the time).
I was todl by a record guy here that I could never see a Golden-winged
Warbler where I am, even though I've seen Blue-winged and a Brewster's.
Well, since a lot of birds return to where they were born, how does a
Brewster's get here? My record guy was silent. And they wonder why I don't
respect them?
Sorry, I didn't mean to do this, but someone has to. Isn't it about time
real people can see real birds and be right?
Oh, I can't see Boat-tailed Grackles near Towson even though my field guides
says I can. Too far inland, the experts say.
Richard
> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:01:58 -0400
> From:
> Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Rufous
> To:
>
> Helen et all,
>
> In a few minutes, I will scan and post the photos that the homeowner
> took of her visiting male Rufous Hummingbird. I didn't ask about the
> possibility of entertaining lots of visitors, and of course, the bird
> did not appear while I was present. I'll keep you posted on any
> updates should I hear anything.
>
> My blog's address is: http://wahzoh.blogspot.com/
>
> Good Birding,
>
> Dan Haas
> West Annapolis, MD
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Helen Horrocks <> wrote:
> > Bruce Peterjohn and Dan Haas have both seen photos of the bird. It is a
> > adult male but not seen today.
> > Thanks for everyone's help.
> >
> > Helen Horrocks
> > Ijamsville, Fred. Co., MD
> > hlh_37~at~yahoo.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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