Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!udel!princeton!phoenix!jklee From: jklee@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Kin Wah Lee) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Advice wanted on Florida Birding Message-ID: <11902@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 3 Dec 89 14:23:39 GMT References: Reply-To: jklee@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Kin Wah Lee) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 39 In article mk2r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Paul Krenitsky) writes: > I will be along the east coast of Florida, possibly the Everglades > [ ... ] and don't know where would be the best places. Well, I'm not too familiar with birding in Florida, but when I was in Everglades NP in October, I found Flamingo to be the best spot to see a lot of different birds in a short amount of time. Lots of gulls, herons, terns and egrets. As I recall, we also saw anhingas and some warblers. There were supposed to be some white-crowned doves as well, but we didn't see those. Never did get that smooth-billed ani either. Darn. > Also, I realize that "listing" is taboo among real birdwatchers Whoa. Where did you get this idea? I had some good friends who worked as park naturalists in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario and all of them were good birders. Moreover, all of them had lists. In fact, some of them were so "enthusiastic" as to have: a life list, a year list, a regional list (i.e. all birds seen in the park), a provincial list (i.e. all birds seen in Ontario), a McDonald's list (i.e. all birds seen while sitting in a McDonald's just before going out birding), a record jacket list (i.e. all birds seen on various LP covers - NOTE: you do see a wide variety!), and an eat list. Yes, an eat list. This was composed of various species (** NOTE ** road-kills) that were removed from the asphalt and "taste-tested". I found this last list to be revolting. Apparently, the practice was stopped after some of them wanted to descend upon a road-kill that turned out to be the favourite bird of one of the members :-). Personally, I don't know any birding friend who does not have at least a life list! JIM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Lee (jklee@phoenix.Princeton.EDU) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dept. of Geol. & Geophys. Sci. * ONLY IN CANADA, YOU SAY? * Princeton University * PITY ..... * Princeton, NJ 08544 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --------------------------------------------------------------------------