Re: Colima Warbler

[Joel Beyer <twobirders at juno dot com>]

Sorry we missed you, Dennis.  Kathy and I just returned from seeing the
Colima Warbler in Big Bend last week (as well as a few hundred other
birds across CO, NM, TX and AZ).  It may not be very colorful, as
warblers go, but the effort to see it makes the sighting especially
rewarding, don't you think?!
Joel Beyer

On Mon, 10 May 2004 09:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Dennis Shirley
<colimawarbler@yahoo.com> writes:
> I knew if I left for a few days the sky would fallout-
> the Bronze Cowbird would show up for sure, and it did,
> plus there would be the unexpected - Lawrence's
> Goldfinch fits this title. But that's a birders life!
> You just can't be everywhere in prime spring time.
> But want a real life birding chase? Try this! Leave
> home at 4:00am, catch an early flight to San Antonio,
> Texas,via Las Vegas, be picked up at the airport by
> your son who has the car packed, drive about half way
> back to Las Vegas {560 miles] to Big Bend National
> Park,arriving at just after midnight, set up a quick
> camp and get your gear together,sleep fitfully, get up
> three hours later,and hike in the dark and daylight a
> total of 11 miles up into the tops of the Chisos
> Mountains. To crazy birders like some of us, it was
> just another day at the office, and the effort was
> worth it. We {Kevin Colver, Darren Shirley, and
> myself] observed and recorded the hardest to get to
> breeding warbler in ABA, the COLIMA WARBLER. We slept
> alot better the second night out.
> Having just read 51 birding reports on this machine, I
> can't take anymore time to report the rest of the
> story {trip]. There's work to be done! See ya in the
> field. 
> Dennis Shirley 
> 
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