Joanne,
	Speaking as a sometime connoisseur of puns,
	I wanted to go on record saying that I thought your
	"bin" of birders was a fine one, very fine, indeed. . .

	even if you & I & other punsters were ~ to use a naval term ~
	"blown out of the water" by Mr. Davis' list.

	Just between you & me, I suspect he must have been
	on one of his trips to Attu or some other Arctic island
	and caught indoors by two days of rain with nothing
	else to do but scan though his Field Guide . . .

				Leo


On Nov 5, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Joanne Howl wrote:
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> Once upon a time a friend of mine and I spent some time creating  
> potential names for a group of birders.  There were several good  
> ones, most of which I can't remember - but I bet the folks on this  
> list could come up with plenty!
>
> I think our all-time winner was "a bin of  
> birders"   (binoculars.... bins... bin.... um...well, we tried).
>
> Joanne
>
> Joanne Howl, DVM
> West River, MD
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Wilson <>
> To: 
> Sent: Thu, Nov 4, 2010 6:53 pm
> Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Wild Turkeys - Queenstown
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>
> Many thanks to Melanie Lynch for pointing out that the official  
> term for a multitude of turkeys is a rafter of turkeys.
>
> And the origin of Murder of Crows appears to be as follows:
> “A ‘murder’ of crows is based on the persistent but fallacious folk  
> tale
> that crows form tribunals to judge and punish the bad behavior of a  
> member
> of the flock. If the verdict goes against the defendant, that bird  
> is killed
> (murdered) by the flock. The basis in fact is probably that  
> occasionally
> crows will kill a dying crow who doesn’t belong in their territory  
> or much
> more commonly feed on carcasses of dead crows. "
>
> Now to find out what a gathering of birders is called.
>
> Jim Wilson