tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-763430959732035545.post241718504385692675..comments2024-03-06T02:31:05.644-08:00Comments on Birding Vancouver Island: A Brit birder in BC, Victoria & Nanaimo: Raptor rapturesJon Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08322963514881326762noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-763430959732035545.post-5731566694487196562009-11-12T07:29:51.798-08:002009-11-12T07:29:51.798-08:00Yes, you are probably right. If you've been re...Yes, you are probably right. If you've been reading the Lancaster stuff you will see that there has been more sniping around the serious/fun area, the odd post has been promptly ditched by the censors or whoever! Away in my little corner I am, I hope, well out of all that and my header makes clear what to expect... though actually I haven't been irreverent at all yet, although maybe I was a tad iconoclastic in my support for the original version of William E. Oddie. All this trouble and strife was predicted in his very first offering, the Little Black Bird Book where he pointed out that birders were nasty, competitive, backbiting and curmudgeonly... or words to that effect. Best wishes to you in over-geographied Canada from Ray here in overpluvialised England .Jon Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08322963514881326762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-763430959732035545.post-88573362886463308352009-11-11T12:35:52.856-08:002009-11-11T12:35:52.856-08:00Hello Jon, it's Ray here. Great quote on the r...Hello Jon, it's Ray here. Great quote on the radio today..." America has way too much history, and Canada has far too much geography." Discuss! you seem to be having a fine time out there, your binoculars must be worn down to a frazzle. All is good here, with 4 fake Snow Geese to go and see, Cetti's warblers rampant, Gt. White Egrets taking over! A crowd gathered in Carnforth Main Street today .. "Egrets Out" was their slogan, and who can blame them...Ernesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06664739166912224018noreply@blogger.com