Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

Charles Bishop wrote, in
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 on Sat, 10 May 2008 23:06:34 -0700:

> In article <3m2c249jqrc5higickf8jest5c65tesfut@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Nick Spalding
> <spalding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >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.

I don't know.  I think of him as being in his 40s.
-- 
Nick Spalding