[Birdtalk] Sending hotline messages

[RICHARD JILL WOOD]

Like a group couldn't possibly make a sighting up?????  Puhlease.

I've been on trips where the leader thought he saw something and no one 
questioned it.



>From: "Jeffrey Saffle" <Jeffrey.Saffle at hsc.utah.edu>
>To: <CliffandLisa at octobersetters.com>, <Birdtalk at utahbirds.org>
>Subject: Re: Re: [Birdtalk] Sending hotline messages
>Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 12:58:08 -0600
>
>It's obvious that most of you birders have never spent time with serious
>fly-fishermen.  You should.  First, you'd learn that unwitnessed
>achievements always tend to be magnified by the reporter, in inverse
>proportion to both the number of witnesses, and the likelihood of them
>being true. It's funny how, despite this, sooner or later the truth
>comes out.  Amazing fish are sometimes actually CAUGHT, and
>photographed.  Amazing bird sighting are also sometimes proved, as with
>recent report of Varied Thrush, rufous-backed robin, boreal owl,
>ovenbird, etc.  Funny how some  people are always alone when the great
>sighting occurs, and they always seem to leave their camera in the car.
>This inevitably separates the truly expert birder from the merely
>imaginative ones.
>

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