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It was submitted by David Jensen on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 13:06:54
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Subject: Driveway Birding (and an embarassing request)
 
Email_Address: dlj11350 at yahoo.com
 
Message: Was standing outside my front door in the Avenues in SLC last evening, the 18th, when a screech owl came zooming up my driveway and landed in a front yard tree (screech owls have nested in my block for a number of years) - very nice, I thought. Next a.m. I was standing outside my front door when a raven came zooming down my driveway at window level and headed off south - I see them regularly in the Avenues but this one was just plain daring. Later in the a.m. I was once again outside my door (don't I do anything else?) when a bird came zooming up the driveway. Was that a....? Hmmm. I went out front and there it was, standing on the lawn, a mockingbird. Well. Had one in my parking lot/yard last year and thought it was a once-in-a-blue-moon fluke, but here was another. 

Pathetic request: My best and only birding buddy moved out of state last year. I've been birding for 30 years and am without a car and am pathetically looking for someone who occasionally is looking for another person to go out into the field with. Most specifically, though I've been birding since time began, I still haven't added Greater White-fronted Goose to my life list - the ONLY person in Utah never to have seen one. I keep reading about sightings and get, well, frustrated as I have no way of getting to where they/it are/is. Anyone willing to take a chance and take me out to see one when another appears? I'm honest, trusty, brave and true and of course will cough up gas money. References: Sylvia Gray likes me (hope you don't mind, Sylvia). I'm not on the 'net at home (come to the library once or twice a week to log on here) and will probably will be back here this Friday. I'll look for any responses then. Thanks. Watch out for those renegade mockingbirds! 

 David Jensen 
dlj11350 at yahoo.com    
   
   
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