Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:38:19 -0800
Reply-To:     Al Knoll <anasasi@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Al Knoll <anasasi@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday bird AKICIV (All Knowledge is Contained in Vandom)
Comments: To: Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@gmail.com>
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He was lost on a trip to Papeete,  cocoanut lost all steering and he drifted
and wandered for months until rescued by an itinerant sooty albatros....well
maybe not months.

Was visiting friends in Tewsahn when the lady of the house asked what route
we were taking in Ruby the red brick, back to Califunia.  She new we were
twitchers and said we should tour through Death Valley, Furnace Creek Ranch,
Bldg. 609 to see the Purple Gallinule.

Joe Morlan did a piece but the record can be found here:

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jmorlan/iny.htm

Right where the blue gecko said it would be.

Out of range?  perhaps.  Never say it couldn't have made it here.  Teensy
little bird caused quite a ruckus in SW Texas recently.  I seem to recall
that Fred, a flamingo, spent a little time in DVNP too.

A snowy owl was photographed a few years back near Sacramento.  Unlikely,
sure, impossible, never.

Photos of Bobwhite quail in our alleyway in Sacramento are available.
Unlikely, sure, impossible, never.  That's some of the fascination.

Birders like to watch.

Pensionerd.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Aristotle Sagan
<killer.jupiter@gmail.com>wrote:

> Who said anything about migration? He was on holiday.
>
>
> Speaking of which, where the hell have you been Bill?
>
>
> tim in san jose
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Bill Kasper <dragonlist@ubs.ucsc.edu>
> wrote:
> > no, no.  the african swallow's not migratory!
> >
> > On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Jeff Lincoln wrote:
> >
> >> No he's suggesting that it could be a migrating African Swallow. How
> >> else
> >> would they get coconuts in new england?
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
> >> camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Are you suggesting that it drifted ashore on the back of a coconut?
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >> '90 Carat (Grover)
> >> '86 (We call this one Parts)
> >> '78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Where ever you are, there you be. Unless you're driving my van, in
> which case, you ain't got there yet.
>