Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

On Mon, 12 May 2008 17:26:34 -0700 (PDT), Snidely
<Snidely.too@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On May 10, 1:31 pm, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)"
> <reunite.gondw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm so glad you mentioned this book (this is sincere, not sarcastic).
> > I zipped off to Amazon just now and ordered it and his other book, two
> > books about ravens and crows (we have ravens in Lancaster), two
> > "companion" books (one about birds and one about cooking), and two
> > books on container ****pping.
> 
> You need a rook and a jackdaw, too.
> 
> How would I know if I have crows or ravens?  Is it the size, or the
> shape of the attack formation.

Ravens are markedly larger than crows.  They flock, if at all, in very
small groups.

> /dps
> (Lives under  where the F/A-18s turn onto the next-to-final leg for
> short field practice at Los Alamitos).

That's the base leg.  The racetrack parts are upwind (parallel to the
runway), crosswind, downwind, base, and final.  These make more sense
if you remember that they land upwind, against the wind.

Mary "I like F/A-18s, but I hope night operations are rare"
-- 
Mary Shafer   Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote re****ts about it.
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