Sarasota News Leader
December 21, 2012
Page 66
happened: Many private property owners
have kindly allowed the team access to
their land this day, and as the team and
this totally clueless amateur birder couple were walking from the Gulf to Little
Sarasota Bay, a resident parking his car
yelled out to them (team members cannot
be mistaken for anything other than birders or concerned citizens investigating a
UFO crash site behind a neighbor���s barn),
���Looking for Otus? Third lower branch on
that oak over there.��� Check! I ought to feel
flattered that I am counted because I am
not rare, just ��� Oh, never mind. But by
an amateur? Not fair and I hate this stupid
game!
By late afternoon, Rick and team have
left the amateurs in charge with careful
Bird No. 10
