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Community members enjoyed the start of the holiday season during the U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden's holiday tree lighting Dec. 3. The event marked the start of FMWR's 12 Days of Christmas activities.
Photos by Chrystal Smith and Karl Weisel
Deer Creek State Park beach. 31 August 2013.
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told her I was going to make her a bedtime checklist. bedtime was getting long and she had a lot to do. she up and made her own.
1 x Sub Woofer
2 x Satellite Speakers
1 x Wire Controller
1 x External power adapter with detachable power cord
1 x 3.5mm to 3.5mm audio cable
1 x User Manual
Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
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This is the first Stilt Sandpiper I've seen in Yakima County this year. I found two previously at this spot -- one in 2016, and another a year or two before that. The first one was with a large group of Long-billed Dowitchers on Sep 21, 2015, but was flushed by Denny's noisy arrival before I got photos. The second one I simply missed getting photos before it flew off with a Lesser and a Greater Yellowlegs. Third time's the charm. The first one I saw was one found by John Hebert in a flooded field, near Norbert's pond.
All my original photos have embedded GPS time/date/location -- proving when & where I took the photos. I would never falsify a checklist, nor info under my photos, and never have done so. That would be the antithesis of my bird watching.
Please always consider the sensitivity of birds, nearby humans, and the environment.
Recently I asked Scott Downes for an apology. He's one of a pair of competitive listers who tricked me into helping them cheat on their Big Day. The other lister, Luke Safford, has also not apologized. In response to my request for his apology, Scott admitted his wrongdoing, but said 'It doesn't matter anyway, because Eric and I beat that record.' Scott's response is Pathetic and inexcusable.
I wish that they and other problem listers would stop their dishonest and disingenuous arguments in defense of their bad and illegal habits. Once you're caught cheating on your Big Day, you're not morally qualified to do another. Leave that competition to decent folks. Perhaps as a state biologist and a preacher, Scott Downes & Luke Safford think they're exempted from ethical constraints while bird listing and while attacking me to try to cover their deeds.
Scott Downes also has never showed the photos he took that day of their claimed (relocated) Tricolored Blackbird. At first he claimed his photos "didn't turn out". At the time of his apology this summer, he changed his story again -- he claimed that he did not even have a camera with him during his invalid Big Day. That flies in the face of what Luke Safford said to me on the phone at Lateral C when they were looking at the claimed Tricolored Blackbird. Luke had phoned me from there. I'd asked him to call me when they'd quizzed me earlier in the day. I wanted to know so I could bring my wife down to see it if it had stuck around. Luke said that as we were speaking Scott was photographing the purported Tricolored Blackbird.
My guess is his photos that day showed that their claimed Tricolored Blackbird was not a Tricolored Blackbird -- if so, ironic since they'd cheated on their Big Day to "get" it. Scott volunteered that he would remove the Tricolored Blackbird from his list. I doubt he has. I also doubt that he has contacted Washington Birder (the Knittles) to finally acknowledge his & Luke's cheating & remove their illegitimate Big Day from the records. I think that Scott Downes' & Luke Safford's names should stay on the Big Day record books, with a zero quantity, and with the explanation that they were disqualified due to cheating.
To Yakima County's problem listers: Don't cheat on your Big Days. Stop pishing and using playback on rare and sensitive birds and in heavily birded areas. Give others credit for their finds. Don't lie and intentionally mislead to cover your misdeeds, misidentifications, and illegal birding practices. Slipping in a different photo when you screwed-up, inserting a photo you took on a later date to your eBird checklist, trying to get me to trespass for your Yakima CBC, blocking links to American Birding Association articles about birding ethics, hiding your trespassing, lying about your apology, using my Dad's death to take a stab at me -- shame on you.
Since bird listing is dominated by white males, it's sadly unsurprising that abusive behavior by them is accepted by their ranks.
Please Follow this Code and Distribute and Teach it to Others ABA Code of Birding Ethics.
Banded as an HY in Gourd #13 at NS site in Mashpee, MA on July 03 2015. Federal Band #2501/42255. Returned to WB site in Mashpee, MA June 9, 2016.
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