Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

In article <3m2c249jqrc5higickf8jest5c65tesfut@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Nick Spalding
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>Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) wrote, in
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> on Sat, 10 May 2008 13:31:37 -0700:

[snip]

>> I can hardly wait for the bird books to get here.  I'm also going to
>> go back and reread the raven books I bought earlier.
>> 
>> Mary "It's so nice to have friends who tell me about books I need"

You're quite welcome.

>
>Mr Barnes's day job is chief s****ts re****ter for The Times.  He also does
>a Saturday column on nature matters.

How old is he would you say? The book is of the tone of an older gent,
passing along wisdom to us younger folk. His photo doesn't show him quite
that old, and there was a bit of disconnect when I saw the photo after
reading part of the book. I'm trying to come up with a word description of
how I pictured him, the Elderly British Gent, a passable eccentric, and
can't quite. I can't decide if he is tallish, with a shock of unruly hair,
or the shorter version, with a fringe of hair over a beaming smile. Surely
there is an archtype in films I've seen, but can't call any to mind.

-- 
charles