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FAREWELL NORTH CAROLINA / CBC
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: FAREWELL NORTH CAROLINA / CBC
- From: "Brad Carlson" <bradcarlson1@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:32:16 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
With mixed emotions, I must report that Pat and I are moving away from North
Carolina to Upstate New York. We sold our home here in Winterville, and
will officially be moving next week. We purchased a new home in a suburb of
Rochester, NY called Honeoye Falls. Pat has been accepted into the
University of Rochester's Dental School so that she can get relicensed to
practice here in the United States. In fact, Pat was accepted with
literally no notice and already had to leave for New York ahead of me so
that she could start classes and her residency program.
We made many good friends and saw some incredible birds during our stay here
in NC! I wanted to thank all of you fellow CBC birders that have made the
last ten years of birding fantastic! Special thanks to a few in particular
(please don't be offended if I miss some people). Thanks to John and Paula
Wright and Ken Harrell who were the local birders in Greenville, NC that
introduced me to the River Park North Bird Club, local Pitt County birding
hot spots and the CBC. Keith Camburn and Jeff Pippen that have been
friendly rivals for our NC state lists. Because of you and your
competition, I spent countless hours trudging through swamps, marshes,
sewage treatment facilities on the days when the weather was bad and I
almost considered staying home where it was warm and dry. Thanks, I loved
every minute of it! Thanks to Brian Patterson who arranges so many pelagic
trips every year. No doubt, some of the most exciting birding I have ever
experienced in my life came on NC pelagic trips when we saw and photographed
White-faced Storm Petrel, Yellow-nosed Albatross and most recently, Bermuda
Petrel! Of course I need to thank John Fussell, Simon Thompson, Derb
Carter, Eric & Celia Dean, Wayne Irvin, Harry LeGrand, Ricky Davis, Rich &
Susan Boyd, Mike Tove, Rob Van Epps, Susan Campbell and many others that
have been a vast wealth of knowledge to help me improve my birding skills
and/or to report birds so that I could chase them. Thanks to Will Cook,
Russ & Patricia Tyndall and Taylor Piehoff for managing the CBC list server,
CBC web and CBC bird hotline.
The CBC and WOW programs have been lots of fun. Pat and I will still try to
get back to NC to participate in some of these meetings in the future. My
sales job will bring me back to my company's facility in Greenville, NC
almost once a month. We plan to be at WOW this October, so we will see you
then. Let us know if anyone is coming up our way and I would be happy to do
some birding with "yaaaall!" My email will remain the same if anyone wants
to contact us.
**** - Hey Keith and Jeff, don't think the competition is over! I have 389
in NC as of today's Pacific Loon. I will be watching the CBC list server
like a hawk, and I will be strategically planning my business trips to NC!
:)
-Brad & Pat Carlson
Winterville, NC <--- (not for long)
-BradCarlson1@hotmail.com
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