[Birdtalk] ABA musings

[Tim Avery]

After reading Kris's post about the ABA rules I ended up on the ABA site 
(http://www.americanbirding.org) and after a while ended up on the page 
about this years ABA convention being held at Snowbird.  I was a little 
surprised reading the information in the field trip lists and am wondering 
what some guests may think when they arent seeing, "Northern Waterthrush, 
MacGillivray's, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, Townsend's, Wilson's or 
Orange-crowned Warblers" at Garr Ranch the last week in June...  Or  my 
personal favorite, "possible Solitary and Stilt Sandpiper) at Kennecott's 
ISSR.  These are just a couple pieces of mis-information that makes me 
wonder, who is fact checking stuff like this?  A simple email to any number 
of people in Utah would confirm that Garr Ranch is far from a migrant trap 
in late June, and although the occasional Solitary Sandpiper may hang around 
in the summer, the nearest Stilt Sandpipers are well over a 1,000 miles 
north breeding on the northern edge of Canada...

Call me a stickler, but there definitely could have been better descriptions 
of Utah specialties that will be seen on many of the field trips.  Now I'll 
bite my tongue when someone finds a Stilt Sandpiper in late June ;)

They did get one thing right for sure, that http://www.utahbirds.org, is one 
of the finest state birding resources in the nation! Nice work Milt!

Good Birding

Tim
Salt Lake City, Utah
tanager at timaverybirding.com
http://www.timaverybirding.com