The ivory-billed woodpecker was spotted just a quarter-mile away from the 3,000-acre spread where Mallard Pointe, originally a duck hunting club, provided guides, dogs and open bars for hunters.Now check out the current Mallard Pointe web site, and note the lack of emphasis on the Ivory-bill.
"We've set most of that aside and we have gone full force into bird watching," said manager Butch Turner.
I suspect that the unnamed "high-profile birder" never delivered on his purported boast last year that he could book "1000 spots with ease".
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Wonder what the success rate was
for Ivory-bill searchers staying
at Mallard Pointe? Any tantalizing
fly-bys, interesting double-knocks,
kent calls, blurry photos, etc.?
You know - the things that constitute solid reports.
There must be a god in heaven
Raining down on me shrap’nell
Of punishment, I am a gluten
My daughter’s going to Cornell
If there is a god in heaven
I must have done him wrong
He’s sending my little freshman
To Cornell all year long
Or….
It could be good; this god in heaven.
I’ll have an inside view of the hood
Where Fitzcrow is the chaplin
In the towers of Sapsucker Wood.
I notice that Mallard Pointe is still listed as a sponsor of Bobby Harrison's Web site.
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