Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Are you sure that's not a gunshot?

Geoff Hill has posted another update (dated 11/27/06) on his Ivory-bill site, and it's a doozy.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, bozos, enjoy your wine and cheese, yacht club outings with smug a-holes that I wouldn't cross the street (or gravel road, in my case) to meet. Enjoy your catcalls and smug put-downs...you won't be able to do it much longer!

We're closing in on the PHOTO!!!

Yee-haw and hooyah!

Cletus

Anonymous said...

The majority of people having a similar observation or obtaining similar audio might tell one or two friends and visit the location again. This appears to be the ornithological equivalent of saying "I've got nothing!!"

It also seems so much like Fishcrow and so unlike an academic that I am wondering if this is just more of the seamless parody.

But I have no doubt that Auburn and/or the CLO could soon be selling similar audio files as ringtones for yuppie birders who spend more time holding a cell phone than holding binoculars.

Anonymous said...

That was pathetic.

Anonymous said...

Good grief. Hunting season = loud bang = rare animal? Sounds like outstanding logic to me! Oh, of course, now I remember, these are the same researchers that called this part of Florida Panhandle one of the most isolated areas in North America. I guess that means that no other humans could possibly be in the area, certainly no one with a gun. Again, perfect logic prevails. Keep up the good work Dr. Hill.

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, Brain failed to capture an image of the fleeing bird

Brain failed to capture more than image of bird. Brain failed to capture concept that bird extinct.

Anonymous said...

"It also seems so much like Fishcrow and so unlike an academic that I am wondering if this is just more of the seamless parody."

Yep, I have now officially added Hillcrow to the participants of this truly grand practical joke.

It would only be better if Hillcrow and Fishcrow were the same genius.....or genus for that matter....

Anonymous said...

Unless I'm not mistaken that noise at the end is Fishcrow shooting himself in the foot. Has he posted anything recently?

Either that or it was Tom blasting holes in the CLO evidence.

Anonymous said...

"Unless I'm not mistaken that noise at the end is Fishcrow shooting himself in the foot. Has he posted anything recently?

Either that or it was Tom blasting holes in the CLO evidence."

Or, maybe, it was lost IBWO searchers firing shots into the air in hopes of being rescued. Maybe it was "Cletus?" The IBWOs have learned to lead searchers deep into the swamps where they can't get GPS, cell phone, or radio signals. It's amazing what evolutionary bottlenecks can accomplish in terms of sharpening an organism's thought patterns.

Oh, and Cletus, I'm sooo sure that y'all are closing in on "the photo." And I'm also sooo sure that it will turn out to be a Pileated Woodpecker. You seem to be pretty smug yourself, my friend. How smug are you going to be in April 2007 after yet another round of futile IBWO searches in 8 states? Hell, for that matter, if there are pockets of IBWOS in 8 states then they are obviously survivors and don't need our help. So, why don't we just leave them alone and let them proliferate and soon enough we'll have IBWOs coming out of our ears and even out of our "smug-a-holes" (as it were).

AAAIIIIEEEE!

Anonymous said...

Two observations:
1) The one thing searchers should have learned from the Luneau video/fiasco was to set (glue) focus on the camera at infintiy. I think that was even a recommendation I saw somewhere.
2) Why does it take almost a year (Ok 5-6 months since ACE article) to publish this observation. The narrative would suggest that the audio was available 12/27/05. If this is more definitve evidence why was in not incorporated into ACE publication?

Anonymous said...

soon enough we'll have IBWOs coming out of our ears and even out of our "smug-a-holes"

Perfect hiding places for this secretive and deceptive beast! Such behavior would give new meaning to the phrase, "Lord God Bird" !! Perhaps it should be given a new species name: Campephilus richardgereus.

Anonymous said...

Did anybody else see this?

"On several occasions in the winter and spring of 2006/2007 Brian and Tyler Hicks heard loud banging and single knocks sometimes with clear double knocks mixed in. "

A careless error for 2005/2006, I assume. I wonder what other careless errors might be in that post.

Anonymous said...

A careless error for 2005/2006, I assume.

Maybe this is a leaked draft for next summer's "big announcement."

Anonymous said...

I'm pretty sure I heard that audio in The Blair Witch Project.

Anonymous said...

Yes, maybe the information was accidentally posted 12 months early?

and ... The Ivorybill Woodpecker Project?

Anonymous said...

I just listened to this. Sounds like a duck hunter sitting in a blind, eating rice crispy cereal, and listening to his buddies blast away at ducks.

What a hoot.