Re: Nuthatch and Creeper Play Deadly Game of Chicken

["Reece Mitchell" <rmitche2@tds.net>]

Come on guys!! Since both birds are left handed they'd have formed a double
helix and may well have produced a genetic hybrid the Creephatch.
                                                         Reece
-----Original Message-----
From: John Argentati <johna@blue-lizard.com>
To: Carolinabirds <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Cc: Carolyn Argentati <carolyn@unity.ncsu.edu>; John Abbott
<abbottjp@conrad.appstate.edu>
Date: Sunday, December 17, 2000 1:12 PM
Subject: Nuthatch and Creeper Play Deadly Game of Chicken


>Dear Birders,
>
>Yesterday while on the Christmas bird count at Yates Mill Pond, the group
of
>us noticed a brown creeper winding his way UP a tree.  Soon after, we
>noticed a white breasted nuthatch winding his way DOWN the SAME tree.  It
>looked as though the two were on a collision course which of course would
>have meant TOTAL ANNIHILATION of BOTH birds and probably a LARGE part of
>Wake County.
>As I'm sure you're already aware, white breasted nuthatches are comprised
of
>antimatter while their upward spiraling counterparts, the brown creepers,
>are comprised of matter.
>(Professor Von Nostrand proved this by colliding creepers and nuthatches in
>the particle accelerator at CERN back in the early 80s.)  Thankfully, the
>creeper veered away at the last instant saving us all from a ghastly fate.
>
>John Argentati
>Raleigh, NC
>
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