You know Richard I have about had it with your smartass replies
whenever you feel so moved.  This is, for the most part, a friendly
community of folks who share birds as a passion.  I have steadfastly
ignored DEMANDS that you be banned from the list because you only
make yourself look bad, but believe me, my patience is wearing very,
very thin.

Now, the next time you feel moved to post a sarcastic comment on
MDOsprey, bite your tongue, okay?  Believe it or not you are not an
advanced birder and with your sarcastic and abrasive attitude may
never achieve that eminence.  Why not?  Because the great birders
(and I certainly don't count myself to being even close to that
distinction) get that way with mentors and with the example of other
great birders surrounding them.  

Either learn to live with this community of Maryland birders or
not--the choice is yours.

Norm Saunders
Owner, MDOsprey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maryland Birds & Birding 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Wood
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 4:16 PM
> To: 
> Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Post Article on Albatross--AKA Great 
> Black-Backed Gull
> 
> The high priests strike yet again.
>  
> Richard L. Wood, Ph. D.
> Computational Chemist
> Cockeysville, MD 21030
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John Sherwood <>
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 3:59:19 PM
> Subject: [MDOSPREY] Post Article on Albatross--AKA Great 
> Black-Backed Gull
> 
> The Post needs some avian education. First, it misidentified 
> a Red Bellied Woodpecker as a "Yellow Bellied Woodpecker" in 
> its recent birding video:  
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2006/03/03/
VI2006030300797.html
>   and now this:  Doesn't the Post have any birdheads on its 
> staff? We're all entitled to make some mistakes but this is 
> getting absurd.   
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/1
1/AR2006031101203.html  ANIMAL WATCH  Hooked Albatross Rescued >
From River Piling  Sunday, March 12, 2006; Page C02       
> ALEXANDRIA, Union Street South, 700 block, March 1. Animal 
> control was asked to pick up an albatross that had a leg 
> stuck in a piling near a dock on the Potomac River. With the 
> help of the Alexandria Fire Department, animal control took a 
> boat to the piling and caught the bird, which had a fishhook 
> stuck in its leg. The albatross was taken to an animal 
> hospital for treatment, then transferred to a wildlife
rehabilitator.
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