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- From: mbehrens@cs.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens)
- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Subject: Re: Bird watching at night
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 04:58:45 GMT
- References: <Jan.20.23.32.22.1993.11500@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
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- E. Giordano writes
- |
- | This may sound like an utterly stupid question -- BUT here
- | goes anyway--can any real productive bird wathcing happen at night
- | or past dusk aside from the logistical problem os not]
- | being able to see--don't most bird hide or "sleep" at night,
- | you never see them at the feeder after dusk and before
- | dawn, and further ducks are never in the same place at night as
- | they are in the day--where do they go?
-
- I took an ornithology class last spring and we went out a couple times at
- night. We brought a few maglites and a big spotlight, and were looking
- for owls and goatsuckers. I believe the general technique was to HEAR the
- bird first, and then try to locate it with the lights.
-
- We met with very modest success.
- --
- Mikael Behrens mbehrens@cs.utexas.edu (NeXTMail OK)
- Computer Science student University of Texas at Austin
- "In this age of innovation and technology, one can make himself
- very unpopular by asking what a particular innovation is FOR,
- since the innovator often does not know, and this embarrasses
- him." Jeff Cooper
-