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From: sid@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Sid Johnson WB6VWH)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: nemesis birds
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.012506.24606@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 31 Jan 91 01:25:06 GMT
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Sender: Sid Johnson
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Keywords: ARRGGHH!

In article <5053@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> geek@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Chris Schmandt) writes:
>In article <50258@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> mjm@oliven.olivetti.com
>  (Michael Mammoser) writes (in another nice posting about chasing
>  after birds):
>
>>	I wondered: considering the ease with which I found these
>>birds and their cooperative behavior; why were they so difficult to
>>find in this same area on all those other occasions? Then I realized
>>that this is just the way of nemesis birds.
>
>Now, Mike's seen a whole lot more birds than I have, but it's funny
>how easy these ones were for me.
>
You guys are really making me jealous with all of this talk about
Pileated Woodpeckers.  I have been chasing that bird for over 5 years.
Mike told me about Portola Park about a year ago and I have been there
twice since, no luck.

My folks live in Louisiana and tell me there is ALWAYS a Pileated in
the back yard.  When I go there to visit the flamming birds all leave
the country.  There was even one spotted here in LA last year, about
1/4 mile from where I work.  As soon as I started looking for it, it
left the country.  One of these days though..........

I have noticed another characteristic of nemesis birds.  Once you finally
see ONE, they are eveywhere.  Why is that?

Well, there is always the museum, sigh.......

-Sid