Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

In article <vo8c245d79hjd6ov15c90lhi2eelo7npkq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Reunite
Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Sat, 10 May 2008 14:12:51 -0700, ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Charles
>Bishop) wrote:
>
>> 
>> On Fri, 09 May 2008 17:59:03 -0700, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary
Shafer)"
>> <reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>> >As I write this there are four grackles picking up bread and a fifth
>> >sitting on the edge of the waterfall.  There are a couple on the roof,
>> >too.  Dinnertime, I guess.
>> 
>> Were you in the LA area in the late '60s? Jack Smith wrote of seeing a
>> grackle at his home and the Audubon Society said that while he could
have
>> seen a Great-tailed grackle, he couldn't have seen a common grackle.
There
>> were several columns on the issue.
>
>Oh, yes, I remember the great grackle wars.  Every time I see a
>grackle of any sort, I think of Jack.  I loved his column and read it
>and his books.  He came up and spoke to the Lancaster Friends of the
>Library and I got to meet him and his wife.  She and I have collecting
>cookbooks in common.

My mom (nice to remember this today) wrote to him, and he referenced her
letter in his column. She was proud of that.

-- 
charles