Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!jhiggott From: jhiggott@axion.bt.co.uk (jeff higgott) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Bird War Victims (cormorants) Message-ID: <1991Jan31.162332@axion.bt.co.uk> Date: 31 Jan 91 16:23:32 GMT References: <11153@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1991Jan29.073655.9832@santra.uucp> <343@tivoli.UUCP> Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk Reply-To: JHiggott@axion.bt.co.uk Organization: British Telecom Research Labs Lines: 20 |> Boy, I think I just got an idea for a new arena for birding - by TV. Have |> to keep a separate list, though, from the list for "normally" spotted birds. |> :-) Not particularly new..... I've got a couple of friends who've been keeping TV lists for ages. Andy's TV list is currently around 900, and Dave's is similar. It's sad, it really is, to see normally rational people replay a videoed wildlife programme ten or more times just `to see if that distant bird among the Dunlins that put it's head as the camera following the flamongoes panned past was really a Terek Sandpiper - cos I need it for my TV list'. * Jeff Higgott - "He's not Ben Johnson - but then who is?" - Athletics commentator.