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Re: Triangle area bird walks? Also politics and the Owl



There is usually a bird walk on Saturday mornings at 9AM at the Eno River
State Par. Size of group is limited. Call 383-1686 for mor info (park
office).

Ted Zoller

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Stuart Rose" <jsr6@duke.edu>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: Triangle area bird walks? Also politics and the Owl


> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Paula Jeannet Mangiafico wrote:
> >
> > Are there any groups of people, formally or informally organized, who
> > regularly do bird walks around the Triangle? The answer is, I'm sure,
> > "yes," so the question really is: how can I contact them? I know there's
a
> > Chapel Hill Audubon chapter, but is there one in Durham? I'm an amateur
> > birder who just wants to get out more often. I don't even own a spotting
> > scope...  ;-)
>
> Hi Paula and other Carolinabirders,
>
> The most regularly occurring trips in the Triangle vicinity are run by
> the Chapel Hill Bird Club. Visit
> http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/chbc/index.html for more information; they
> run trips every Saturday, but it's been a while since they've updated
> their schedule which usually says where they are going...
>
> The Wake County and New Hope (Chatham County) Audubon societies have
> walks, but not (as far as I know) on a regular weekly basis. When they do
> have bird walks, they are usually announced on Carolinabirds, as was
> Harry LeGrand's walk for NHAS last Saturday (which I really wanted to
> attend, but I overslept...).
>
> With respect to the alleged Snowy Owl, the location appears (according to
> http://www.delorme.com/cybermaps/route.asp) about 1 hour from Durham, for
> those interested in checking it out. I'm skeptical because the bird is
> described roosting in pine trees; of the dozens of Snowies I've seen in
> Michigan and Massachusetts, not a single one has roosted in a tree. All
> were either on the ground or on bare wood such as fence posts or
> telephone poles.
>
> A last point, on politics: allegedly G.W. Bush, contender for the
> Republican presidential nomination, has retained Terry L. Anderson as his
> environmental advisor. Anderson is an extremist who supports auctioning
> off *all* public lands. That's right, no more Pea Island or Bodie Island
> or Mattamuskeet or any other NWR; no Croatan or any other NF; no Cape
> Hatteras or any other NS; no Great Smoky Mountains or any other NP. The
> only lands safe from becoming strip malls, condos, tree farms, or other
> developments would be that privately held, such as Nature Conservancy and
> Audubon Society properties. Given the relative purchasing power of these
> groups vs. the real estate, logging, mining, and other industries, I
> shudder to think what might happen if Bush gets elected and this guy
> becomes Secretary of the Interior... To read Anderson's own words on the
> topic, visit http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-363es.html
>
> Anyone know who McCain has as his environmental advisor?
>
> Good birding,
>
> Josh
>
>
>
> Joshua S. Rose
> Duke University
> Department of Zoology
>
> jsr6@acpub.duke.edu
> http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/
>
>
>
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