Wednesday, March 07, 2007

"Hope comes knocking"

An article by an Arkansas searcher is here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

TSome have come to doubt the rediscovery altogether.

Some?


It seems the more people and technology is thrown into the search, the harder it is to detect the bird.

Well Bobbycrow has an explanation for that.


The "finding a needle in a haystack" analogy is right on the money.

Except for the fact that needles don't have drumming sounds that could supposedly carry for over a 1/2 mile and kent calls that could supposedly carry for over 1/4 mile.

And is that "on the money" or "in the money"?


While confidentiality agreements prevent me from sharing any evidence (or lack of evidence) that may or may not have been found this season...

They're still requiring that everybody keeps it all secret? I guess they feel the need to control the data. After all, they already let it slip that their remote cameras filmed Pileateds coming out of the holes they were monitoring (presumably A-type holes). So where's the paper on the variation in Pileated Woodpecker holes?

Anonymous said...

"When I received an e-mail last November informing me that I had been accepted as a volunteer searcher, I knew I was in for a once-in-a-lifetime experience."


And every IBWO sighting is apparently also a once-in-a-lifetime experience since it never happens again when you attempt to find it again.

If you want to see a "lone dispersing male" the closest you will get is at your local bank where they may have a "loan disbursing male". And if you get a picture please post it.