[Birdtalk] Stalking Decoys

[Connie McManus]

You think that's bad...
Years ago I drove up to Alaska on the AlCan Hwy.  I was real eager to see a
black bear... there were supposed to be loads of them on this road.  At last
we came around a bend that was also going uphill a bit.  At the top was a
huge black something that was moving around.  I got all excited thinking it
was a bear.  As we came to the apex of the curve, we saw that it was 3
ravens pecking at something in the road.  It was a long time before the
jokes stopped.

Connie McManus


On Dec 20, 2007 6:54 PM, MarJean Muhlestein <wingsnwind at msn.com> wrote:

>  Some times those U-turns "payoff". Two weeks ago at about 10pm, We
> were at Smith's Food King in Farmington, just coming out of the parking lot
> and turning North onto the side road. My daughter Andrea was with me
> visiting from Alaska. We started up the road, and I caught an image on a
> post. Screech went the breaks, but I could not turn around, being it is a
> one-way road. There wasn't any traffic so I did a naughty, and backed up
> into the parking lot again. In turning the car about so that the lights
> could shine on my image...there it was a REAL Barn Owl. Since there weren't
> any red lights flashing at me, we sat there for a while and enjoyed our
> sighting. So folks keep on turning><
>
> MarJean M
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Steve Coleman <scoleman at utah.gov>
> *To:* birdtalk at utahbirds.org
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:02 PM
> *Subject:* [Birdtalk] Stalking Decoys
>
> I have gotten excited before at sighting waterfowl to only to find it was
> a decoy, but Tim's response reminded me of one of my most embarrassing
> sightings. We were caravanning with several vans on a family outing up to
> the Unitahs on the drive from Deer Valley over to Kamas I slammed on my
> breaks and jumped out of my car binoculars in hand, the others in out
> caravan all slammed on their breaks and thought either someone in my van was
> sick or dying. I excitedly pointed up on the side of the hill at what I
> thought was a black bear only to see that it was really a cow. I was glad
> none of them had weapons because I think they all could have killed me.
>
> So don't feel bad
> Happy birding
> Steve
> _______________________________________________
> Birdtalk mailing list
> Birdtalk at utahbirds.org
> http://utahbirds.org/mailman/listinfo/birdtalk
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Birdtalk mailing list
> Birdtalk at utahbirds.org
> http://utahbirds.org/mailman/listinfo/birdtalk
>



-- 
Connie McManus
Nibley, Cache County, Utah
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://secureserver.securesites.net/pipermail/birdtalk/attachments/20071222/7eda8326/attachment-0001.htm