not meant to be a joke in New London
Sorry these are not real. Not meant to be a joke. I could not get real close and
was wondering why I could not get good identification. Like I said, I am new at
this.
Denise
Denise,
I did not get a good look at your pix, but I do have a few funny instances from the Norwalk Islands to share.
I recall one winter bird count when Chris Bozak and I were out on my boat, we were counting brant thought our bins, after scanning the flock of about 20, I looked a bit more to the right and said to Chris, what's that a duck hunters boat ? Yes we were duped by a bunch of brant decoys.
Last winter I photographed shot after shot of a odd bird behind the islands, as I maneuvered the boat closer to the bird, I realized it was a hunters lost merganser decoy.
On one of the Norwalk Seaport's Bird Tours, I was talking about the Mute Swans in Norwalk Harbor.
I mentioned to the customers that there was one near the western shoreline. After studying in my bins, the joke was on me, the swan was a floating plastic blowup near the shoreline at someones shoreline home. Perhap a look alike to yours?
We all had a good laugh!
Larry Flynn
----- Original Message -----
From: Denise Davies
Date: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 5:18 pm
About 10 years ago on a New Haven CBC, I was working the thick shrubs behind
WELI/KC101 in Hamden. It was breezy that day and my eye caught something
yellow in the thicket. Hoping that I had a warbler, or maybe a chat, I
slowly tip-toed around to get another better look without spooking whatever
it was. After about 5 minutes, my team members caught up with me and I
explained what I saw. They started searching too and asked where it was in
relation to the yellow leaf stuck in the shrub. After that I said,
"Oh.....nevermind..."
Thanks,
JT
John Triana
Prospect
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[mailto:ctbirds-bounces@lists.ctbirding.org] On Behalf Of Denise Davies
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 5:18 PM
To: ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org
Subject: [CT Birds] not meant to be a joke in New London
Sorry these are not real. Not meant to be a joke. I could not get real close
and was wondering why I could not get good identification. Like I said, I am
new at this.
Denise
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This is a story I tell in class, to show how expectations shape what we see.
Out on Lake Whitney was a low bird on the water, sort of a Merganser shape & level -- but no dark head. Hmmm ... some weird leucocistic form, all white Common Merg? Hmm....
Then my brain let me see something not a bird: it was a half-gallon Clorox bottle, clear as day.
(Misidentifying the Starlings from a few yards away is a different sort of story.)
Ta! Arthur
On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:02 PM, jtriana1@sbcglobal.net wrote:
About 10 years ago on a New Haven CBC, I was working the thick shrubs behind
WELI/KC101 in Hamden. It was breezy that day and my eye caught something
yellow in the thicket. Hoping that I had a warbler, or maybe a chat, I
slowly tip-toed around to get another better look without spooking whatever
it was. After about 5 minutes, my team members caught up with me and I
explained what I saw. They started searching too and asked where it was in
relation to the yellow leaf stuck in the shrub. After that I said,
"Oh.....nevermind..."
Thanks,
JT
John Triana
Prospect
-----Original Message-----
From: ctbirds-bounces@lists.ctbirding.org
[mailto:ctbirds-bounces@lists.ctbirding.org] On Behalf Of Denise Davies
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 5:18 PM
To: ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org
Subject: [CT Birds] not meant to be a joke in New London
Sorry these are not real. Not meant to be a joke. I could not get real close
and was wondering why I could not get good identification. Like I said, I am
new at this.
Denise
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