Re: greg's expenses & Virginia Rail and Ovenbird at the Smithsonian

Robert Weiner (rweiner@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu)
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:26:02 -0500 (EST)


jim,

that birdfood you smithsonianus types are putting outside your building
must be hot stuff.  maybe you can save greg some money by putting out
stuff that matches his target list; e.g., a dead seal for ivory gull
(can't remmber if he needs that one), etc. 

BTW, as a birding economist (economizing birder?) I am always cheered to
find another example of diminishing returns, especially an avian one.
Once time-travel becomes feasible, birders'll be saving their pfennigs for
the Great Auk and Carolina Parakeet trips . . .

rob

Robert Weiner (rweiner@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu)
George Washington University
Washington DC 20052
202 994 5981

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Jim Felley wrote:

> 
> On Friday, Oct. 30, the rail was in the Enid Haupt garden, at the
> northwest corner of the National Museum of African Art.  Today,
> November 2, the Ovenbird was underneath the yews that line
> Independence Ave, east of the main gate.
> 
>                             Jim
> 
>                             Jim Felley
>                             Smithsonian Institution
>                             irmss668@sivm.si.edu
>