Re: World Birding Center
scordle (scordle@tidalwave.net)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 17:13:06 -0500
Bob--
Thanks for the feedback. Maybe I'll take it off my list.
Steve Cordle
Gyrfal wrote:
> In a message dated 98-03-24 21:37:41 EST, you write:
>
> >
> >Steve Cordle
> >
> >Norm Saunders wrote:
> >
> >> Ted Eubanks of NAS was alleged by Geri and Alfred Webre to have said:
> >>
> >> > -"Avid wildlife observers go to the [Rio Grande] Valley while casual
> >> > birders go to Nebraska."
> >>
>
> I AM an avid birder who has been to the Rio Grande probably a dozen times. I
> also went to Nebraska a year ago for Wings Over the Platte. It was a major
> disappointment.
> We paid something like $25 a pop to be carried a few miles on a bus and led to
> a cement block blind about 15 x 8. There were only about 30 of us in there
> and the birds were a hundred yards or more away. There were so many people
> that only about a third could be looking out the slit windows at a time.
>
> The feeding cranes for the most part stay in the center of corn fields that
> are a mile square. It aint Chincoteague or Blackwater or the OC pond.
>
> As for the Rainwater Basin lakes, they were indeed filled with ducks and
> geese. Only problem is that they are heavily hunted in the Fall and early
> winter and fly or swim off as soon as you drive your car up an access road.
>
> Yes, there are prairie chickens dancing on a lek in the area. You can view
> them from the road - again at 100 yards or more. No blind available.
>
> I wrote several letters to the folks who run that show and never even received
> a reply. I would not return, nor recommend the experience. Perhaps I
> expected too much. Back to the valley for me.
>
> Bob Mumford
> Darnestown