SirVive

I'm thoroughly enjoying this topic I have lots of these type of adventures gone wrong/turned into great memories kind of stories but non of them revolve around birding.

Making the new mod earn his keep!

And ...?

Which one do you live in?

That looks about like an oversized version of what my brothers and I would make out of a couple of tin cans and a wire in order to communicate with each other over distances that could have been traversed by a horse whisper

What happened to the ending I was expecting? - where another group of birders all had their binoculars turned in your direction.

Just so long as it's not the last ☺️

That's funny 😆 You got me for a minute even though I've been there! On one of my first dates with my now wife - I texted my folks back in WA a picture of a sign that said something along the lines of 'Welcome to Mexico' and then a bit later a sign that said 'Entering Canada' and then I vanished out of service 🙃

In which case they couldn't even stick with the proper Spanish pronunciation

Ya'll need to move here - I was at 53 for county last year with only 96 sp😆 Number 12 all time for complete checklists though - mostly on my lunch break or in my back yard.

Pretty much except they don't use flint anymore 😁 More or less it's amateur sniper practice

That was my best guess too but he must have been practicing for a PRS match - this lake is all mudflats and I think the largest rock I have ever seen was about 3" At least my kids made good use of the mud 😁

Vancouver Lake, WA. I was watching a gull who had something that it picked up about the size of a walnut - several dozen times it would fly up from just a few feet to as much as 30 and then drop it onto the sandbar or into the shallow water next to it and then dive after it and start the performance over again. Trying the crack-a-shell-on-the-rocks trick that of course failed on the soft mud? Or just playing a game?

The link helped me with what a 21c is ... what about an NFC?

Not my pic and it's a few days old but since we're on the topic my brother-in-law found this at his school and they had to have the local rescue group out.