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3 days agoAnd zoos! I don’t count zoo birds, but each to their own rules of course. Congratulations yourselves, it’s been very interesting watching this become a real focus for you both.
3 days agoReading Winterlude takes priority, but otherwise I am trying to enter all our 2024 birds into eBird. They are quite amazing in the speed with which a reviewer emails you if they think you have have stepped out of line. They have "illegal" birds of various types, such as "escapees", and then there are "spuhs" and "slashes", "other taxa" and who knows what. I went to email war with a reviewer over my Greylag geese, seen in the wild everywhere in Europe but confined to "escapee" prison by eBird. I found it therefore liberating to see you starting 2025 here in December, because you make the rules!
p.s. There is a good chance we too will exceed 300, but we cheated by going to Costa Rica. On the other hand, we only count a bird if we have an identifiable photo. By contrast, the people in our tour, with the $2500 Swarovski binos, could call out 10 birds in a minute. In the 12 days of the tour, they saw 258 species!
Yes, I spent November in Carlsbad, and I will be heading for Tucson in January. I will be there until March 1st, and assuming you have most of this bad stuff behind you by then, perhaps we can get together. We’ll keep our fingers crossed 🤞
3 days agoWhat an awful, awful day, but finally some competent health care providers. Hang in there. Thinking of you both.
3 days agoAmazing nice photos. They seem to back up the often seen claim that you don't need a $12,000 camera to make an outstanding photo.
3 days agoWendy! So nice to hear from you again. Are you heading south this winter? If things continue on the upturn we’re starting to look at flying down to Tucson in February. Too soon to do more than speculate though, but that’s what we’re hoping for.
3 days agoI’m so sorry to hear about what you are going through, Scott. Please know that many of us have followed you faithfully for years, and we do want to get updates, pleasant or not. I, too, am looking forward to a somewhat improved outlook from you tomorrow.
And for what it’s worth, I find it’s quite easy to manage in Tucson without a car. I use my bike to get groceries, and if I want to go to a restaurant or something, Ubers are readily available there.
Yup, totally agree, regardless of what’s ahead I suspect we’ve done our last long distance winter drive. In the future we’ll fly down and either rent a car or go carless. There’s even talk of possibly selling the Raven, but there’s plenty of time for that discussion.
3 days agoYeah, what Steve said!
3 days agoA real gong show from the start. At least you finally were able to be seen by a, hopefully, competent and knowledgeable doctor. And STOP driving around. Both of you. Taxis and Uber are for these situations.
3 days agoI drive plenty, and I'll tell you, driving in a stress situation is a completely different animal. And with reduced vision, yikes.
3 days agoWhat Kelly said. I don't want to "like" this but I'm feeling the feels here.
3 days agoWe need a heart button here - or hugs, or both!
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What a terrible day but thank goodness at long last you are getting thoughtful care. Do keep us up to date with the progress with the steroids. DONT drive use Ubers and taxis as it would be terrible to add a car accident to your list of prnblems. Our very best wishes
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