[birding] Re: [obol] Beverage-in-hand method of birding

[Rick Krabbe]

Hello all:
 
Not to steal the thunder from Mssr's Baccus, Campbell and Harding, I would like to take my shot at revising history.  I first observed beverage-in-hand-birding practiced by Dr. Storm, then a professor at OSU.  This was back in the early eighties when Gilligan, Schmit, Crabtree and company were still part of the brat pack.  While everyone else, myself included, was running willy-nilly about the refuge Dr. Storm would haul out a lawn chair and cooler and perch in the shade near the HQ office and wait for the birds to find him.
 
Just some thoughts.  Rick

>>> "Don Baccus" <dhogaza at pacifier.com> 8/17/2009 10:24 AM >>>

On Aug 13, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Joel Geier wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> In my earlier posting to the MidValley list-serv (also copied to  
> OBOL),
> I attributed the "beverage-in-hand" method of motorless birding to  
> Randy
> (Campbell) who had mentioned it in a posting earlier today.
>
> To give credit where credit is due, I should note that Jeff Harding  
> was
> the originator of this phrase, if not the entire idea of
> beverage-in-hand birding. I suspect that Randy's mention of this  
> method
> was a tip of the hat to a fellow Linn County birder.


Here's an example of "beverage-in-hand" bird photography, which I  
would argue is at least one step superior to mere "beverage-in-hand"  
birding:

http://donb.photo.net/photo_cd/a/b54.jpg 

The beverage-in-hand in this case being a chocolate milkshake, which  
leads to a simple quiz I'm sure nearly all can answer:

Where was this photo taken?

----
Don Baccus
http://donb.photo.net 
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