WHINE! Dave N. is harassing me! :-) Actually, Before I sent the post about "No. Shrike" I thought for a second people could misinterpret it that way (No Shrike seen). But I also try for brevity in my messages when I can, because usually I tend to blither on too much!
thanks Dave, for bringing this up. This reminds me of when we had the discussion a couple years ago about using the code names for birds rather than spelling them out, causing some people who don't know the codes to wonder which bird was being discussed. Blitheringly yours, Donna Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On Feb 13, 2013, at 10:22 PM, [email protected] wrote: > When I first read the subject line, I thought it was reporting the absence of > a shrike: no shrike. Then I realized that it was an abbreviation for Northern > Shrike. I often think it's worth the small extra effort to write the whole > name of any bird in order to be clear, and I celebrate the very long names. I > guess I'm on the compulsive end of the spectrum that way, maybe because I > imagine so many ways to misinterpret other people (and I succeed quite a bit). > > I am not writing simply out of amusement or to harass Donna, I am also > belatedly (for which everyone is welcome to ridicule me) reporting that I saw > presumably the same bird, a Northern Shrike, atop a sapling beyond a brushy > area north of Snyder Road and the airport on Sunday afternoon, 10 February. > Of course I wonder if this is the same bird I found due east of the end of > Cherry Road, a slightly different vantage into the same expanse of habitat, > back on 4 January. > --Dave Nutter > > On Feb 13, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Donna Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> in Hedgerow and on barbed wire of chain-link fence north east of Airport >> (Seen from Snyder Rd. Lansing). >> Donna Scott 11:50 AM >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> Donna Scott >> -- >> >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm >> >> ARCHIVES: >> 1) >> [email protected]/maillist.html'>http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html >> 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds >> 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html >> >> Please submit your observations to eBird: >> http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ >> >> -- > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
